Osman blamed Somali’s partisan culture for election fraud rather than the government

Evidence

Many of the telegrams of protest from the last few days that I received give sufficient indication of the dissatisfaction (in various areas) of the parties outside of SYL and thus demonstrate that the attempt to make things go smoothly without doubt did not succeed everywhere. The government is not at fault for this, but it is the custom of the majority of Somalis who possess power that they cannot give up their partisan spirit and easy abuse of power and misdeeds. It is also the fault of acts which are not orthodox and possibly illegal. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 671