Winston Tubman, the former UN ambassador vying for the presidency in a Nov. 8 runoff against President Johnson Sirleaf, looked positively gloomy. A smile for the camera seemed forced. Just shy of two weeks ago, his party led an opposition revolt against the National Elections Commission. Nine of the 16 parties on the ballot signed a statement saying the elections had been rigged. International observers lauded the Oct. 8 elections as free and fair. Tubman's party, the Congress for Democratic Change, called for the NEC's chairman, James Fromayan, to resign. During a recent visit to the former ambassador's Monrovia home, Tubman received a call and said little, except for one "I see." A CDC partisan called to inform him Fromayan would not resign and that the CDC should do whatever it was going to do. Tubman issued a heavy sigh.
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