{"id":212513,"date":"2025-11-04T13:26:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-verbal-clash-erupts-as-dr-thomas-tweh-alias-countryman-vows-to-unseat-house-speaker-in-2029-koon-retorts-says-he-can-beat-anyone-with-eyes-closed\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:26:50","slug":"liberia-verbal-clash-erupts-as-dr-thomas-tweh-alias-countryman-vows-to-unseat-house-speaker-in-2029-koon-retorts-says-he-can-beat-anyone-with-eyes-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-verbal-clash-erupts-as-dr-thomas-tweh-alias-countryman-vows-to-unseat-house-speaker-in-2029-koon-retorts-says-he-can-beat-anyone-with-eyes-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Verbal Clash Erupts As Dr. Thomas Tweh, Alias &#8216;Countryman,&#8217; Vows to Unseat House Speaker in 2029 &#8211; &#8211; Koon Retorts, Says He Can &#8216;Beat Anyone With Eyes Closed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Monrovia \u2014 The race for the 2029 Representative Elections is still years away, but political tensions in Montserrado County District #11 are already heating up. A bitter war of words between House Speaker and current District #11 Representative Richard Nagbe Koon and rival Dr. Thomas Nimene Tweh, popularly known as <em>Original Countryman<\/em>, is rapidly intensifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The latest political showdown unfolded on social media, with both men trading verbal jabs and accusations &#8212; a confrontation that has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511040188.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>Monrovia \u2014 The race for the 2029 Representative Elections is still years away, but political tensions in Montserrado County District #11 are already heating up. A bitter war of words between House Speaker and current District #11 Representative Richard Nagbe Koon and rival Dr. Thomas Nimene Tweh, popularly known as Original Countryman, is rapidly intensifying. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212514,"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":[258,256,52785,5065,7647,6851,44941,9231,4342,5110,47653,4712,1107,257,52786,254,9632,6769,42998,9165,34546,9639],"class_list":["post-212513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alias","tag-beat","tag-clash","tag-closed","tag-countryman","tag-erupts","tag-eyes","tag-house","tag-koon","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-retorts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker","tag-thomas","tag-tweh","tag-unseat","tag-verbal","tag-vows"],"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\/212513","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=212513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}