By M.A. Egge
The WADDANI presidential flag-bearing candidate Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi, popularly known as Irro, has stated that the stands for the “defense of the people, country and nationhood of Somaliland”.
He expressed the sentiments as he addressed a massive campaign rally at the Hargeisa Freedom Gardens on Wednesday in which thousands of supporters adorned and clad with clothes and dresses bearing the party’s symbols thronged the venue while waving miniature flags.
Shrill sounds of support and enthusiasm in the form of songs, slogans and phrases filled the air.
Speaker after speaker sold the parties policies while pledging and promising a better administration if elected given their rallying cry as being the ‘coalition of change’.
He hailed the security forces as a whole for their impartial conduct all through the campaign period which is about to halt in a few days time.
He at the same time profoundly praised the supreme committee of the Habar-je’lo community who were instrumental in striking an accord that was adopted which culminated in the holding of the elections; the holding of the elections was dotted with a lot of hues and cries that elicited violence and set-back the whole exercise for a couple of years.
He urged the populaces to elect a leader that they deemed fit hence would be instrumental in taking the country and the nation to higher heights.
He cautioned public servants from indulging in active politics.
The WADDANI presidential candidate is leading a formidable force that makes it the only serious challenger to the KULMIYE party.
The only three official political parties vying for the top seat has the Ucid presidential candidate as being the other challenger, making it a replay of the 2017 presidential elections.
Similar WADDANI campaign rallies were held on the same day across the nation in readiness for the presidential and political party elections which would be held on Wednesday the 13th of November 2024.
The three political parties will have to defend their ten-year official mandate from a horde of seven other political organizations, as per the country’s elections regulations.