In G’ Cape Mt By-Elections: PUP Candidate Gets Early Lead

Preliminary results from 103 precincts tallied out of the 171 polling places in Grand Cape Mount County suggest that the People’s Unification Party’s candidate, Victor Varney Watson, is prone to be announced the next senator if the results filtering out of the rest of the 68 polling precincts do not change.According to information gathered over the weekend, Mr. Watson took the early lead by accumulating the total of 4, 417 votes thereby stepping sharply ahead of all six other candidates in the just ended by-elections however, the Alternative National Congress candidate Simeon Taylor is said to be on the trot with 3, 013 votes.
Other candidates like Sando Wayne of the United People’s Party is announced of netting 1, 802 votes so far while the Unity Party’s candidate Dabah Mabande Varpilah and the Vision for Liberia Transformation, Matthew Darblo have obtained a little over one thousand votes each.
Even though in some areas there were noticeable low turnouts, Madam Varpilah is recorded to have pulled strength in Robertsport, the county seat, which is believed to be the most populated area. Meanwhile, the National Elections Commission is expected to announce the initial results beginning this week.
The Grand Cape Mount by-elections was contested by five males and two females on Saturday October 5; a contest in which Kula Fofana, a representative of the Coalition for Liberia’s Progress and Mr. Daoda Metzger an independent candidate also contested.
The Grand Cape Mount County Senatorial by-election came as a result of the death of Edward Dagoseh, an Executive Committee member of the former ruling party, the Unity Party but who remained suspended up to his demised due to his affirmative participation in the removal of Cllr. Kabineh Ja’neh as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia.
Sen. Dagoseh who later died at the John F. Kennedy as a result of a protracted ailment served the country in many capacities before ascending to the Liberian Legislature. He worked at the Ministries of Youth and Sport as well as Finance and the then Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs.
Dagoseh is the second senator and the third lawmaker that the Legislature has lost since the start of this year thereby creating the vacancies declared by the NEC. Other colleagues who predeceased him in the year under review were Senator Geraldine Doe Sheriff of Montserrado County and Representative Adolf Lawrence of District # 15 of Montserrado County. By C. Winnie Saywah-Jimmy