MPs supporting Osman tried to boycott the 1967 presidential vote

Evidence

Osman reported the following regarding Isaak: “Hussen Culmie told me that three deputies who are on our side (one who is a minister) have rented living quarters in Afgoi and have said that they won’t come to the voting. They are Aden Isak, Sheik Yusuf Sh. Osman, and Ahmed Mohamed Obsie. I have also been informed that the three deputies have entrenched themselves in the Shabelle Hotel, but that they were flushed out and brought to the assembly.” Osman, diary, June 10, 1967. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1470