NEC Chairman Jerome Kokorya, at a press conference at the electoral body’s headquarters, announced that Weah had accumulated 720,023 votes, which amounts to 61.5% while Boakai earned 451,088 representing 38.5%. Liberia seems to have no history where a close political rival, the CDC included, had conceded defeated to a winner. My name will not be used as an excuse for one drop of human blood to be spilled in this country. “I value all of you and hereby urge you to demonstrate that Liberia can be a better country. Now that Boakai has been gracious in defeat, it is now incumbent upon the winner to be magnanimous in victory.

Source: Daily Observer December 29, 2017 18:07 UTC