Farmajo's crude manipulations in Baidoa aimed at keeping the influential politician Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden off the scene angered the local elite and turned Robow from a mild distraction to the electoral process into a major contender to win the South West State presidency...
The current South West State president Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan resigned from the race because he could not compete financially with Lafta Gareen...
In the next few days allies of the prime minister offered South West State President Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan an extension of his mandate and for elections to be postponed to November 2019...
The South West State President Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan did not heed the summons...
There were 10 candidates for Speaker but both Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan and Farmajo favoured Mohamed Mursal the former defence minister...
He is regarded as one of the most capable ministers; Abdirashid Abdullahi Mohamed (Rahenweyn/Leysan) is a former NRC representative for Bay and Bakool who now holds the vital post of Defence Minister despite being thought pro-Ethiopian not a quality Farmajo would admire and hostile to the President of South-West State (Bay Bakool and Lower Shabelle) Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan...
Ethiopian pressure on Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan President of South-West State gave Rahenweyn MPs further reason to dissent from their former political boss...
Hiddig's support came from those backing Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden a Rahenweyn for President...
Indeed veteran politician Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan made clear that he would join his Hawiye colleagues to oppose such an option...
Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden who has been close to Addis Ababa for years already had Ethiopia's approval when he won the presidency of the Interim South West State Administration (ISWA; AC Vol 55 No 3 New blood in old bottles)...
However he soon found out that four of them were close to Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden the newly-elected South West State President and his arch-rival among the Rahenweyn (AC Vol 55 No 3 New blood in old bottles)...