By M.A. Egge
The former long service Speaker of Somaliland parliament Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi is the founder and flag-bearer for the position of Presidency.
He has just been elected as the Sixth president of the Republic of Somaliland.
The newly elected President of Somaliland Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed Abdilahi was born in Hargeisa in 1955.
He completed his primary and secondary education in Burao, Berbera and Hargeisa and transferred to the famous high school in Sheikh School.
Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi, between 1978 and 1981, worked in an organization called Social Development in Mogadishu.
From 1981 to 1988, he was a diplomat at the center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the former Somalia regime in charge of the economic financial cooperation department.
Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi from May 1988 to 1996 was the deputy ambassador and later ambassador to Russia.
He then Abdirahman Irro moved back to Finland where he stayed until 1999 when he returned to Somaliland.
In the year 2000, Abdirahman Irro became one of the founders of the UCID party as the deputy secretary general.
In the Somaliland parliamentary elections in September 2005, he became one of the elected members from the Sahel region of Berbera. Then the parliament elected Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi as the speaker of the parliament and he held it for 12 years until August 2, 2017 when he voluntarily resigned to vie for presidency.
In 2011, Abdirahman Irro founded his own political vessel, WADDANI after a dispute with the chairman of the UCID party.
Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi speaks English, Arabic, Russian and Finnish. He holds a master’s degree in MBA in management from the SIDAM College and in conflict resolution diplomacy from the University of Hargeisa.
The elected president of Somaliland is a veteran politician who has been working for a long time in diplomatic matters and is described by people who have a lot of knowledge as a brilliant, calm, attentive and kind person.