Summary:
- The Managing Director of the LWSC claimed that Minister Sara Nyanti was the lone Presidential candidate in the 2023 elections.
- But a review of the 2023 final Presidential candidate list published by the NEC shows that there were two female presidential candidates.
- Ali claim is misleading
On April 20, Mohammed Ali, Managing Director of the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC) and a senior partisan of the ruling Unity Party, claimed in a Facebook post that Sara Beysolow Nyanti was the lone female presidential candidate in the 2023 elections.
Ali used the post to argue that the concept of feminism in Liberia is “selective,” suggesting that prominent feminists failed to support Nyanti during the 2023 election.
The Claim
Excerpt from Mohammed Ali’s post: “Sara Beysolow Nyanti was the lone female presidential candidate in the 2023 election. I never heard any of the loud ‘feminists’ declaring support for her.”
Rating Justification
To verify this claim, we consulted the Final Presidential Candidate List Report 2023 published by the National Elections Commission (NEC).
This official document provides the full list of presidential candidates and their running mates, who were certified to contest the election.
According to the NEC’s report, two women contested the presidency in 2023: Sara Beysolow Nyanti of the African Liberation League (ALL) and Bendu Alehma Kromah, an Independent Candidate.
Conclusion
Based on this finding, we conclude that the claim made by Mohammed Ali that Sara Beysolow Nyanti was the lone female presidential candidate in the 2023 elections is misleading.
Verified information from the National Elections Commission confirms that there were two female candidates on the final ballot: Sara Beysolow Nyanti and Bendu Alehma Kromah.
