Abadula Gemeda

Abadula Gemeda a patron of OPDO's 'new bloods' including Abiy Shimelis and Lemma Megersa who still wields significant influence without holding an official position Girma Birru Abiy's Macroeconomic Adviser former OPDO former EPRDF era Minister of Industry and former Ambassador to the United States Debele Kabeta powerful Customs Commissioner who worked in national intelligence with Abiy Tamirat Haile Addis-born Oromo historian with PhD in charge of Abiy's park development projects in Addis Ababa Influential Amhara figures: Temesgen Tiruneh an ardent Abiy loyalist and his longtime colleague in the military intelligence unit INSA and from November 2020 until February this year he headed NISS...

Veteran OPDO leader Abadula Gemeda's career was dogged by allegations of corruption as were many other senior party figures and Abiy himself is a former deputy head of the Information Network Security Agency...

However Abiy's recently appointed National Security Advisor Abadula Gemeda an Oromo EPRDF veteran was retired this week and there are suggestions Getachew will replace him...

In an accompanying move Abadula Gemeda the long-serving parliamentary Speaker from the OPDO became National Security Advisor which will give Oromia Region's ruling party a dominant position on the National Security Council (AC Vol 59 No 5 Oromia on a knife edge)...

Vote 'fixed'Although the Speaker of the House Abadula Gemeda a veteran leader of the OPDO announced that the State of Emergency had been ratified he made several procedural errors including miscounting votes...

The fresh protests which were largely peaceful are probably explained by a combination of lingering anger at the attacks on Oromo by Somali regional police and gangs as well unresolved grievances over the jailing of prominent Oromo politicians and the resignation of the well-known Speaker of the federal parliament Abadula Gemeda a former President of Oromia...

Lemma is facing an internal challenge from supporters of Abadula Gemeda the former regional president and current federal parliamentary Speaker we hear...

Both are backed by the influential Oromo leader Abadula Gemeda a former regional President and the federal Parliamentary Speaker since 2010...

Little has been heard from figures of the Oromo establishment such as popular former President Abadula Gemeda Speaker of the federal legislature since 2010 (AC Vol 51 No 18 The new guard steps up)...

Addisu Legesse (Amhara National Democratic Movement) heads Ethiopian Airlines; Teshome Toga (Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement) is Ambassador in Brussels; Tsegaye Berhe and Abade Zemo (both TPLF) are respectively Advisor to the Prime Minister and Ambassador to Sudan; from the Oromo People's Democratic Organisation Kuma Demeksa is Ambassador to Germany Girma Birru is Ambassador to the United States and General Abadula Gemeda is Speaker of the House of Representatives...