Osman believed conscience, not party majority, legitimated his choice of prime minister

Evidence

It is strange that [few people know me well] … after so many years in public life, nobody, I say nobody, as far as it seems, believes that I would have the courage to ignore the decision of the majority party, leaving Abdirashid [Sharmarkee] on the sidelines and entrusting Abdirazak [Hussen] to form a new government. Truly, I cannot understand what the people believed was being risked, acting according to the beliefs of my conscience and why one does not remember that Abdirashid himself was chosen even though the majority of the deputies of the time were in favor … of Abdullahi Issa. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1412

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: did Osman apply the same conscience-over-party logic in the 1960 Abdullahi Issa appointment, and is that true?