Sharmarkee’s regime sought outright control of the SYL party machinery

Evidence

The meeting went nowhere, and Hussen asked the mediators to let the accuser take the matter to court, as that would also reveal who was behind the scheme. … Finally, the mediators told Hussen that the regime wanted control of the SYL and him to resign as secretarygeneral of the party, but Hussen responded that the government would have to win party control through the established legitimate means. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 997