{"id":219719,"date":"2026-01-08T22:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lfa-power-broker-murvee-gray-backs-rajis-third-term-bid-rules-out-re-election\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:46:57","slug":"liberia-lfa-power-broker-murvee-gray-backs-rajis-third-term-bid-rules-out-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lfa-power-broker-murvee-gray-backs-rajis-third-term-bid-rules-out-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LFA Power Broker Murvee Gray Backs Raji&#8217;s Third-Term Bid, Rules Out Re-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Monrovia \u2014 Assistant Minister of Youth and Sports and Liberia Football Association (LFA) Executive Committee member Murvee Gray has officially thrown his weight behind Mustapha Raji&#8217;s third-term presidency, calling on football affiliates to prioritize &#8220;continuity over change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">In a strategic meeting with key football stakeholders, including the Inter-School Sports Association (ISSA), Liberia Football Coaches Association, Liberia Football Referees Association, the Liberia Oldtimers National&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601080301.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 Assistant Minister of Youth and Sports and Liberia Football Association (LFA) Executive Committee member Murvee Gray has officially thrown his weight behind Mustapha Raji&#8217;s third-term presidency, calling on football affiliates to prioritize &#8220;continuity over change.&#8221; In a strategic meeting with key football stakeholders, including the Inter-School Sports Association (ISSA), Liberia Football Coaches Association, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219720,"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":[258,256,7102,10798,33357,18184,15550,4712,1107,53359,257,7047,53360,13072,10967,254,35311],"class_list":["post-219719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-bid","tag-broker","tag-gray","tag-lfa","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-murvee","tag-news","tag-power","tag-rajis","tag-reelection","tag-rules","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thirdterm"],"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\/219719","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=219719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}