{"id":223390,"date":"2026-02-10T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cdc-expels-pennue-gbala-weah-over-alleged-disloyalty-signals-hard-line-ahead-of-2029\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:04:54","slug":"liberia-cdc-expels-pennue-gbala-weah-over-alleged-disloyalty-signals-hard-line-ahead-of-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cdc-expels-pennue-gbala-weah-over-alleged-disloyalty-signals-hard-line-ahead-of-2029\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: CDC Expels Pennue, Gbala, Weah Over Alleged Disloyalty, Signals Hard Line Ahead of 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><em>Published:<\/em> February 9, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\"><strong>MONROVIA, Liberia &#8212;<\/strong> In a sweeping political purge that underscores rising tensions within Liberia&#8217;s opposition, the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) has expelled Senator Zoe Emmanuel Pennue, former Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission Chairperson Cllr. Kanio Bai Gbala, and Sinoe County District Two Representative Samson Weah, accusing them of sustained disloyalty and open alignment with the ruling Unity Party administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The decision was announced in a press&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602100028.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>Published: February 9, 2026 MONROVIA, Liberia &#8212; In a sweeping political purge that underscores rising tensions within Liberia&#8217;s opposition, the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) has expelled Senator Zoe Emmanuel Pennue, former Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission Chairperson Cllr. Kanio Bai Gbala, and Sinoe County District Two Representative Samson Weah, accusing them of sustained disloyalty and open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223391,"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":[258,256,7019,4305,14113,48891,9034,53619,9309,4712,1107,6402,257,28405,10503,254,12734],"class_list":["post-223390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-alleged","tag-cdc","tag-disloyalty","tag-expels","tag-gbala","tag-hard","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-line","tag-news","tag-pennue","tag-signals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weah"],"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\/223390","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=223390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}