{"id":240456,"date":"2026-08-06T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-mdr-party-official-defends-position-after-senator-samuel-kogars-godfather-honor-sparks-debate\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:25:09","slug":"liberia-mdr-party-official-defends-position-after-senator-samuel-kogars-godfather-honor-sparks-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-mdr-party-official-defends-position-after-senator-samuel-kogars-godfather-honor-sparks-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: MDR Party Official Defends Position After Senator Samuel Kogar&#8217;s &#8216;Godfather&#8217; Honor Sparks Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Ganta \u2014 A senior official of the Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction (MDR) recently defended the party&#8217;s stance after controversy erupted over Senator Samuel Kogar being named a &#8220;godfather&#8221; by chiefs and elders in Zoe Zoulay Town in District Number Three, parts of Nimba County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">The National Vice Chair for Press and Publicity of the MDR and an Assistant Minister for Commerce and Trade, Kevin D.J. Mattaldi, appeared on a radio program to response to questions about whether the vice president&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608050392.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Ganta \u2014 A senior official of the Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction (MDR) recently defended the party&#8217;s stance after controversy erupted over Senator Samuel Kogar being named a &#8220;godfather&#8221; by chiefs and elders in Zoe Zoulay Town in District Number Three, parts of Nimba County. The National Vice Chair for Press and Publicity of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,9086,7820,46498,9660,52018,4712,1107,44474,257,5092,7024,6941,9158,7798,254,9617],"class_list":["post-240456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-debate","tag-defends","tag-godfather","tag-honor","tag-kogars","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mdr","tag-news","tag-official","tag-party","tag-position","tag-samuel","tag-senator","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240456","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=240456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}