Egal allied with Issa expecting to become prime minister

Evidence

The newly organized parliament of the Somali Republic had 123 members (33 from the North and 90 from the South). … One group that included many Northerners, led by Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, joined Abdullahi Issa and his group, which they thought would command a majority. … Egal thought that Abdullahi Issa would be president and he the prime minister. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 508