Former Finance Minister Samuel Tweah Wednesday took to social media accusing Vice President Jeremiah Koung of attempting to have him jailed to ease his path to the presidency.
He’s upbeat about his innocent and insists on the basis of the law he would walk a free man.
The ex-finance minister was responding to social media commentator Stanton Witherspoon, who Tweah said shared image depicting him as “dejected” after leaving court.
“Stanton, last night you played a doctored image in slow motion of me walking out of court to present to the public that I was ‘dejected.’ Is that how Jeremiah Koung told you to portray me?” Tweah wrote.
“Stop trying to fight me my brother. It’s a wasted cause.”
Tweah accused Koung — a former ally whose 2020 senate campaign was bankrolled by the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) and who later defected to the Unity Party to become its vice-presidential running mate — of viewing Tweah as “a threat to his presidential ambition.”
“Tell Jeremiah Koung your new friend and my former friend that Samuel D. Tweah Jr. will not go to jail so he should stop killing himself to see it happen,” Tweah said.
“If this is his ONLY path, then he will never be president of Liberia.
“I will gladly go to jail if I commit the crime for which I am accused. I will never go to jail for the crime I didn’t commit.”
Tweah and several other senior figures from the George Weah administration are currently on trial over national security spending that the present government has deemed inappropriate.
He has repeatedly maintained his innocence, Koung’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. One spokesperson said he has not been authorized to comment. Stanton could not be reached for comment on the allegation that the circulating image was doctored.
