Koijee Warns Boakai Against Staying in Office After 2029

Published: October 7, 2026

MONROVIA – Jefferson T. Koijee, the secretary general of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), warned on Tuesday that any attempt by President Joseph Boakai to stay in office after the 2029 elections “will be met by the full force of the Liberian people, the Constitution, and the international community.” He made the warning in a Facebook post denying claims that Sen. Nathaniel F. McGill had been handed a leadership role in the party.

Koijee was responding to a post he alleged the Boakai administration made. He called it “malicious and satanic lies oozing from the belly of the Cocaine Regime” and said it was meant to divide the party.

“Let me state for the record, categorically and clearly: at no time was Senator Nathaniel Fallo McGill ever appointed to such a portfolio,” Koijee wrote. “Atty. Janga Kowo remains the duly elected National Chairman of the Congress for Democratic Change and enjoys the absolute support of our noble political movement.”

Koijee’s post did not say which position the claim had given McGill. He said “scores of national and international personalities” had contacted him since the claim was posted. He also dismissed as “cheap fiction” a claim that he would “address it on my next birthday in 2027.”

McGill, a former minister of state under President George Weah, remains under U.S. Treasury sanctions. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has denied his petition to be removed from the sanctions list.

Koijee used the post to turn to the 2029 race. He said the CDC expects an “overwhelming victory” in an election campaign he called “The Final Destination.”

“Any attempt by Mr. Boakai to spend one minute refusing to vacate the office will be met by the full force of the Liberian people, the Constitution, and the international community,” he wrote. “The precedent set by President Weah will not be betrayed.”

He pointed to Weah’s handover of power after losing the 2023 runoff as the standard the CDC expects Boakai to meet.

“After his six-year presidency, he showed unreserved respect for the country and the Liberian people and turned the country over peacefully. That is the standard. That is our legacy,” Koijee wrote.

Boakai has given no public indication that he would refuse to leave office.

Koijee said the CDC “is absolutely not a gangster paradise” and has practiced democratic values for its 22 years. He announced that the party will hold its Martyrs’ Day celebration in Kinjor from Nov. 4 to 7, under the theme “They Carried the Struggle, We Carry Their Legacy.”

“To our partisans: ignore the noise, stay united, and keep your eyes on the prize. The CDC is one, and the CDC is ready,” he wrote.