Monrovia – The ruling Unity Party (UP) has called on the Supreme Court of Liberia to issue an immediate stay order on the December 28 presidential runoff based on a 25-count Bill of Information the party has filed with the highest court. Unity Party noted that in the absence of an agreed methodology of the cleanup of the FRR, the NEC created an impression that the FRR is already cleaned. NEC ‘Cannot’ Set DateThe Unity Party further contended that the NEC does not have the constitutional and statutory authority to, all by itself, set December 26, 2017 as the date for the runoff election. Article 83 calls for the scheduling of the runoff election on the second Tuesday after the announcement of the final result of the first round of the election. “The NEC Chairman and the NEC Executive Director should and ought to have tendered their resignations."

Source: Front Page Africa December 15, 2017 02:26 UTC