Sharmarkee bought MP support by promising posts including the premiership to Egal

Evidence

Meanwhile Sharmarkee began to build a team among MPs by not only providing cash payments but promising posts to some of them in his future administration. A key figure among these was Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, who was granted the premiership in advance and in exchange for his support. The logic behind the Sharmarkee-Egal team was that they could woo both the East and the West to support the campaign. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 909

Categorization

• XREF: Egal’s premiership promise is the seed of events that later chapters will presumably detail.