MONROVIA, Oct. 6 -- Nobody in Grand Bassa politics is calling it a campaign yet. The next general election is still years away, and no one with a stake in the outcome has made a formal announcement. Yet on Monday, October 5, a single radio interview made it hard to pretend that the maneuvering had not started.

By Obediah Johnson

Senator Gbehnzohngar Findley, a guest on OK FM 99.5's Morning Rush Show, talked at length about the county's political future. The woman he spoke about most warmly was not his Senate colleague, Pro Tempore Nyonblee Karnga Lawrence, but former Commerce Minister Magdalene Dagoseh.

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