{"id":22430,"date":"2025-04-23T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=22430"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:07:18","slug":"is-edith-gongloe-weh-senator-elect-of-nimba-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/is-edith-gongloe-weh-senator-elect-of-nimba-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Edith Gongloe-Weh senator-elect of Nimba County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim: <\/strong>Barely 24 hours after the just-ended senatorial by-elections in Nimba County, several Facebook users, including Hon J Howard Mattaldi Jr.<\/a>, Steven O. Johnson<\/a>, and Calvin Nelson<\/a>, have alleged that candidate Edith Gongloe-Weh is the \u201csenator-elect\u201d of Nimba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Verdict: <\/strong>False! The National Elections Commission (NEC) has not declared Edith Gongloe-Weh the winner of the just-ended elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The National Elections Commission (NEC)\u2014the constitutionally mandated body responsible for conducting and announcing elections in Liberia according to Article 83(c) of the 1986 constitution<\/a>\u2014 has not declared any winner of the Nimba County senatorial by-election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until the official results from the Nimba by-election are announced, no candidate can rightfully be referred to as \u201csenator-elect.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim: Barely 24 hours after the just-ended senatorial by-elections in Nimba County, several Facebook users, including Hon J Howard Mattaldi Jr., Steven O. Johnson, and Calvin Nelson, have alleged that candidate Edith Gongloe-Weh is the \u201csenator-elect\u201d of Nimba. Verdict: False! The National Elections Commission (NEC) has not declared Edith Gongloe-Weh the winner of the just-ended elections. Conclusion: The National Elections Commission (NEC)\u2014the constitutionally mandated body responsible for conducting and announcing elections in Liberia according to Article 83(c) of the 1986 constitution\u2014 has not declared any winner of the Nimba County senatorial by-election. Until the official results from the Nimba by-election are announced, no candidate can rightfully be referred to as \u201csenator-elect.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[5,1571,4,3812,3815,1960],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[4141],"class_list":["post-22430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-fact-check","category-featured","category-headline","category-homepage","category-liberia"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-5PM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4141,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"prince-e-cooper","display_name":"Prince E. Cooper","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Image-of-Edith-Gongloe-Weh.jpg?fit=512%2C512&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22432,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22430\/revisions\/22432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22430"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=22430"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=22430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}