Osman refused the SYL presidency to avoid appearing power-hungry after expelling Haji Mohamed

Evidence

Hussen was one of the members selected to oversee the election of a new party leadership. Osman was nominated for the party presidency, but he refused to accept it because he felt that he had enough responsibility being the parliament Speaker. Further, he did not want party members to misinterpret his lead role in the Haji Mohamed affair as a power struggle for the top party post. He pleaded with members not to impose the party’s presidency on him because he saw it as possibly undermining party unity. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 359

Once the presidential issue was dealt with, Osman and a few party members proposed that the current CC membership should resign as a group to make room for a new team. Many CC members resisted this proposal, and it took sustained pressure to dislodge them. Hussen was one of the members selected to oversee the election of a new party leadership. Osman was nominated for the party presidency, but he refused to accept it because he felt that he had enough responsibility being the parliament Speaker. Further, he did not want party members to misinterpret his lead role in the Haji Mohamed affair as a power struggle for the top party post. He pleaded with members not to impose the party’s presidency on him because he saw it as possibly undermining party unity. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 359

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 359