President Osman confidently expected to win the 1967 SYL nomination contest

Evidence

At this stage Osman appears to have assumed that he would be nominated and that he would run. He noted in his diary as the SYL congress entered its last day, “Once I am accepted to compete, I like to ‘not bite the dust’ but I certainly won’t be desperate, as I believe my adversary will be if he loses the race!” — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1462