{"id":204821,"date":"2025-08-16T22:21:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-candidates-contest-nimba-county-district-five-by-election-results-threaten-legal-action\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T22:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:21:53","slug":"liberia-candidates-contest-nimba-county-district-five-by-election-results-threaten-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-candidates-contest-nimba-county-district-five-by-election-results-threaten-legal-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Candidates Contest Nimba County District Five By-Election Results, Threaten Legal Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Sanniquellie \u2014 An independent candidate in the just held District # 5 By-Election in Nimba County has expressed deep dissatisfaction with the National Elections Commission official results, describing the results as a &#8220;far cry&#8221; from the actual votes counts witnessed in the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Candidate Borris B. Barleah claimed that alleged discrepancies and irregularities occurred in several key precincts and is demanding an urgent recount of votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">In a formal complaint submitted to the National&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508150212.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>Sanniquellie \u2014 An independent candidate in the just held District # 5 By-Election in Nimba County has expressed deep dissatisfaction with the National Elections Commission official results, describing the results as a &#8220;far cry&#8221; from the actual votes counts witnessed in the district. Candidate Borris B. Barleah claimed that alleged discrepancies and irregularities occurred in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204822,"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":[6394,258,256,9913,9085,12667,5091,8614,6393,4712,1107,257,2962,6407,254,7002],"class_list":["post-204821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-byelection","tag-candidates","tag-contest","tag-county","tag-district","tag-legal","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-nimba","tag-results","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threaten"],"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\/204821","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=204821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}