Osman was glad the premiership went to Abdullahi Issa to avoid cabinet friction.

Evidence

I am greatly relieved as it would have been embarrassing if I gained a majority for the premiership. The most serious difficulty would have been how to deal with some ministers of the outgoing cabinet, who in the past three years put themselves in positions to be hated by the Darod or the Hawiye. It would have been advisable to keep them out of the cabinet, although they would resent their marginalization. Thank God it is the responsibility of the prime minister to deal with them. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 388

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Shows how clan politics shaped cabinet formation in early Somali democracy.

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• Hussen’s first cabinet broke from clan and regional balancing norms to favor merit (similarity 0.81)
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• Osman’s non-partisan elder-statesman image shielded him from criticism (similarity 0.79)