{"id":198000,"date":"2025-05-13T06:59:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T04:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-i-have-fought-a-good-fight-koffa-confirms-resignation-as-house-speaker-blames-executive-defiance-of-supreme-court-ruling\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T06:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T04:59:47","slug":"liberia-i-have-fought-a-good-fight-koffa-confirms-resignation-as-house-speaker-blames-executive-defiance-of-supreme-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-i-have-fought-a-good-fight-koffa-confirms-resignation-as-house-speaker-blames-executive-defiance-of-supreme-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;I Have Fought a Good Fight&#8217; &#8211; Koffa Confirms Resignation As House Speaker, Blames Executive Defiance of Supreme Court Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Monrovia \u2014 Representative J. Fonati Koffa has officially confirmed his resignation as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the 55th Legislature, citing the Executive&#8217;s refusal to honor a Supreme Court ruling and the shifting political tide as reasons behind his decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Speaking to journalists on Monday, Koffa said his resignation was submitted to the Chief Clerk of the House at noon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">His decision follows months of intense legal and political wrangling over the speakership, culminating in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505130030.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 Representative J. Fonati Koffa has officially confirmed his resignation as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the 55th Legislature, citing the Executive&#8217;s refusal to honor a Supreme Court ruling and the shifting political tide as reasons behind his decision. Speaking to journalists on Monday, Koffa said his resignation was submitted to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,8259,6824,6185,21472,7631,4345,14257,6677,5110,34771,4712,1107,257,14238,7870,254,9632,9498],"class_list":["post-198000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blames","tag-confirms","tag-court","tag-defiance","tag-executive","tag-fight","tag-fought","tag-good","tag-house","tag-koffa","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-resignation","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}