MONROVIA, Nov. 2 -- The leadership of the National Patriotic Party (NPP) has unveiled a plan that critics say would quietly strip former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor of control of the party at the very moment she faces the gravest challenge of her political life: a drug trafficking and money laundering prosecution.

By Rodney D Sieh

In a message circulated to partisans, NPP National Chairman Atty. George Sylvester Mulbah Sr. said there would be no Standard Bearer election at the party's December convention. Instead, delegates will elect a "political leader" who will have no right to contest the presidency.

Mulbah said the decision rests on what he called the 2016 Bomi amendment to the party's constitution. He said the political le...