Michael Essien wishes legend George Weah luck ahead of Liberia Presidential election re-run

Published on: 09 December 2017
Michael Essien wishes legend George Weah luck ahead of Liberia Presidential election re-run
Former international Liberian football star turned politician George Weah, greets his supporters during a campaign rally in Monrovia on October 8, 2017, three days ahead of the country's elections.Liberians go to the polls on October 10, to pick their first new president in 12 years as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf closes the page on two terms dominated by post-war reconstruction and the Ebola crisis. / AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)

Ghana midfielder Michael Essien has sent a good luck message to Liberian Presidential candidate George Oppong Weah ahead of the re-run of the election. 

Liberia's Supreme Court has ruled that evidence of fraud during October's first round of presidential elections was insufficient to merit a re-run.

This means the final round of voting between the two leading candidates - ex-footballer George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai - can go ahead.

The electoral commission will now set a date for the delayed vote.

Liberty Party's representative Charles Brumskine, who came third in the first round, had challenged the result.

The second round of voting to succeed President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf had initially been set for 7 November.

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