The Integrity Team for the leadership of the Sports Writers Association of Liberia (SWAL) has won all elected positions at the 2023 Elective Congress of the Association held last Saturday, December 9, in Careysburg, lower Montserrado County.
The team with Varmah Kamara contesting for the presidency defeated their opposition bloc headed by Trojan Molley Kiazolu of the Prime Communications Incorporated (Prime 105.5 FM).
At the election that was held in the Chalets Hall at Wulki Farm in Careysburg, the State Radio’s former sports reporter (Kamara) and teammates vying for elective positions won their respective posts with votes margins revealed that the sports writers went through a tight electoral process to have the Kolubah Zayzay administration replaced.
Those elected to steer the affairs of the association for the next three years were the Executive Director of Youth Media Action, Varmah Kamara as President; Front Page Africa’s Sports Editor, Christopher Walker as Veep; Truth FM Sport Talk host, Edwin Boye Dolo as Secretary General, and Margibi County based Sports reporter, Jerome C. Willie as Assistant Secretary General.
For the presidency, Varmah Kamara accumulated a total of 55 valid votes the highest of 105 votes cast by the membership during the congress. His contender, got 49 votes to set the margin of six in favor of SWAL’s current vice president.
What appeared to be a bigger race for the vice presidency of the Association that claimed the attention of sports pundits was when the Front-Page Africa’s Sports Editor, Christopher Walker declined his initial ambition of contesting the presidency to go as vice president of the winning team in the elections.
Walker had Nimba County based Radio Voice of Gompa’s reporter, Nathaniel Tokpah to have contested against for the vice presidency on the ticket of team Trojan Kiazulo though it was discovered days prior to the elections that Tokpah see no reason to contest against his contender in the process but failed to back off.
Tokpah was tipped in revealing to Walker that the best person to lead the association for the next three years was his (Tokpah) opponent for the vice-presidential post. Walker was elected in his new capacity with the highest vote’s margin among all other contestants in the elections. He got 59 valid votes over Tokpah’s 45 votes a margin of 14.
Next to him in terms of votes margin was the Secretary General-elect, Edwin Dolo, who got 59 out of 105 valid votes cast at the congress. Edwin won William Decent Toe of lower Margibi County.
Jerome C. Willie, Naomi Tiapia, and Yusuf Sherif were all elected unopposed in their capacities as Assistant Secretary, Financial Secretary and Chaplain General respectively.
Nearly all the defeated candidates in the elections have conceded defeat congratulating their various contenders calling on the incoming leadership to push their association to the next level under the administration Varmah Kamara.
