Liberia’s Vice President, Jowel Howard Taylor
MEDIA REPORTS from Liberia suggest that the West African nation’s Vice President, Jowel Howard Taylor, has threatened to resign by midday on Monday, June 3, 2019.
Local newspaper, Frontpage Africa reports that the decision of the wife of Liberia’s former warlord leader, Charles Taylor, was “in protest against growing and unending distrust between her and President George Manneh Weah.”
Mr. Weah and his vice have not had good working relationship since assuming office in 2018.
From the early days of their regime, Mrs. Taylor had to offer a public apology to Mr. Weah after it emerged that she traveled to Rwanda without his permission.
The latest ‘confusion’, DGN Online understands, is over the Veep’s alleged link to the planned June 7, 2019, protest action in Liberia dubbed: ‘Save The State.’
Organizers of the planned protest action are planning to use the occasion to ‘free’ Liberia from the hands of President Weah and his ‘corrupt’ officials whose actions and inactions have reportedly escalated economic hardship in West Africa’s oldest democracy.
“The Vice President, according to the source expressed disappointment over the manner in which she has been disrespected by people close to the presidency, particularly in the wake of the latest accusations that she is involved in the planning of this week’s Save-the-State protest,” according to a report monitored on Front-Page Africa.
Some well-known Liberian journalists have also been reporting about the Vice President’s likely resignation.
BY Melvin Tarlue