Smarting from election victory in Liberia, President-elect, Mr. George Opong Weah, has told the citizens that “change is on.”
The ex-football superstar was on Thursday announced the winner of the presidential run-off.
He defeated Vice President Joseph Boakai in the first democratic transfer of power in decades following two devastating civil wars.
The former AC Milan player is set to replace incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took over at the helm of affairs in 2006.
The Liberian National Election Commission (NEC) announced that Weah had won an insurmountable 61.5 percent of Tuesday’s vote, which was delayed several weeks after a legal challenge from Boakai.
The NEC said that with 98.1 percent of all votes counted, Boakai had only secured 38.5 percent support.
NEC President Jerome Korkoya told reporters that definitive results would be released on Friday.
But Weah wasted no time to post on Twitter: “My fellow Liberians, I deeply feel the emotion of all the nation. I measure the importance and the responsibility of the immense task which I embrace today. Change is on.”
“The Liberian people clearly made their choice… and all together we are very confident in the result of the electoral process,” tweeted Weah before the official results were announced.