LIBERIA’S Unity Party said today it had expelled outgoing president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, apparently for refusing to support her vice-president Joseph Boakai’s election bid.

Assistant secretary-general Mohammed Ali accused Ms Sirleaf of sending supporters to campaign for George Weah, who won the December 26 run-off vote.

Mr Weah’s Congress for Democratic Change, a coalition formed to support him, is generally considered to be to the right of the Unity Party.

His vice-president, Jewel Howard-Taylor, is the ex-wife of former tyrant Charles Taylor and a member of the National Patriotic Party, which he is believed to control from prison.

In 2012, she attempted to push a law through parliament which would introduce the death penalty for homosexual acts.

Ms Sirleaf, who was Africa’s first female president, had not commented at the time the Star went to press.