{"id":203831,"date":"2025-08-02T21:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T19:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-vp-koung-sen-kogars-snub-of-mdr-candidate-in-nimba-by-election-sparks-outrage-accused-of-abandoning-pyjs-party\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T21:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T19:52:56","slug":"liberia-vp-koung-sen-kogars-snub-of-mdr-candidate-in-nimba-by-election-sparks-outrage-accused-of-abandoning-pyjs-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-vp-koung-sen-kogars-snub-of-mdr-candidate-in-nimba-by-election-sparks-outrage-accused-of-abandoning-pyjs-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: VP Koung, Sen. Kogar&#8217;s Snub of Mdr Candidate in Nimba By-Election Sparks Outrage, Accused of Abandoning PYJ&#8217;s Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Buuyao \u2014 Vice President Jeremiah Koung and Senator Samuel G. Kogar have come under fire for distancing themselves from the Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction (MDR)&#8217;s candidate in the upcoming by-election in Nimba County&#8217;s District #5, sparking accusations of betrayal and abandonment of the party founded by the late Senator Prince Yormie Johnson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">Both Koung and Kogar, prominent figures within the MDR and close allies of the late PYJ, have chosen to remain neutral in the race, refusing to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010344.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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>Buuyao \u2014 Vice President Jeremiah Koung and Senator Samuel G. Kogar have come under fire for distancing themselves from the Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction (MDR)&#8217;s candidate in the upcoming by-election in Nimba County&#8217;s District #5, sparking accusations of betrayal and abandonment of the party founded by the late Senator Prince Yormie Johnson. Both Koung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203832,"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":[15046,7083,258,256,9913,7997,52018,38704,4712,1107,44474,257,2962,13149,7024,15801,13557,7635,254,9617],"class_list":["post-203831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-abandoning","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-byelection","tag-candidate","tag-kogars","tag-koung","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mdr","tag-news","tag-nimba","tag-outrage","tag-party","tag-pyjs","tag-sen","tag-snub","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks"],"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\/203831","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=203831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}