In Summary:
Montserrado County Senator Saah Joseph claimed he received more votes in Montserrado County than former President George Weah during the 2023 elections.
We have verified this claim by reviewing the 2023 Senatorial Election in Montserrado County published by the National Elections Commission.
We found that the Senator’s claim is correct.
On August 8, Montserrado County Senator Saah Joseph claimed during an appearance on Spoon Talk that he got more votes in Montserrado County than former President George Weah during the 2023 elections.
Senator Joseph made the claim at (2:45:00) of the show while making several allegations against the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), including an assertion of an arson attack on his Congo Town residence. He attributed the alleged attack to resentment over outperforming the CDC’s standard-bearer, former President Weah, in the vote count within the county.
The Claim
Said Senator Joseph: “My house was put on fire because I got more votes than George Weah.”
Senator Joseph made the assertion when he phoned in to the August 8 edition of Spoon Talk broadcast on radio and livestreamed on Facebook
Rating Justification
To verify this claim, we reviewed the official results published by the National Elections Commission (NEC) for the 2023 Senatorial and Presidential elections in Montserrado County.
According to the NEC’s website, former President George Weah received 319,366 votes, amounting to 46.08% of the vote in Montserrado County during the presidential election.
Meanwhile, Senator Saah Joseph received 375,392 votes, representing 56.45% of the vote during his senatorial election in the same county.
Conclusion
Based on a review of the official data from the NEC’s website, we conclude that Senator Joseph’s claim that he received more votes in Montserrado County than former President George Weah during the 2023 elections is correct.
In the 2023 election, former President George Weah received 319,366 votes, amounting to 46.08% while Senator Saah Joseph obtained 375,392 votes, representing 56.45% during the election for the senate. This means, although the two candidates at the time did not contest for the same post in the county, Senator Joseph obtained 56,026 more votes than Mr. Weah in Montserrado County in the 2023 elections.
