The Ambassador

Former ambassador Winston Tubman, the standard-bearer for the opposition Congress for a Democratic Change, (and therefore head of the CDC-ion, pronounced sedition) reclined on a sofa covered in African print in his split-level house behind the boulevard named for his late uncle. On his right sat Charlene Taylor, one of former president Charles Taylor's daughters, fresh from a visit with her dad at The Hague, where Taylor is being held for war crimes allegedly committed in Sierra Leone. Later Tubman explained his party's newly struck alliance with Taylor's party in vote-rich Nimba County. "Mr Taylor is still very popular with his party," he says. Though the party has no internal polling data, anecdotally, Tubman says he think CDC can win it. "You should have seen July 15, this town has not seen such crowds before," he says, referring to his and superstar vice standard-bearer George Weah's Monrovia homecoming, where Weah reportedly told supporters Johnson Sirelaf rigged the 2005 elections.