What’s up with Weah?

A New Democrat article describes a fist-fight that broke out while the Congress for Democratic Change (George Weah’s party) was attempting to elect its nominee for a senatorial by-election in Montserrado County.  One of the party leaders was attacked after declaring that he had orders from Weah not to conduct the election until Weah returns to Liberia from the US (supposedly today).  The New Democrat paraphrases another party leader saying:

…it was time that the CDC decentralizes the party in order to meet present day reality. He said the party is an institution that should relay on the decision from it members and not individual.

I wonder how Weah has managed (even nominally) to stay head of this party when my understanding is that he has been in the US full-time since loosing to Sirleaf in 2005.