My final thoughts.
1.NOTHING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT FOR ANYONE
I support Farmaajo, I want him to win, but if he does, there will be no celebration from me. Where Somalia's entire state building process stands right this second inspires no joy from me.
It is a joke. A complete joke.
To think in 2021, we find Somalia in this Hobbesian nightmare. "Elections" they call; May you forever spend rehabiliting your image Election, if this is what you are!
I speak as a Somali. It is not about who or what you support at this moment. It is about the complete, in your face public freak show making parody of our worst fears about the country's growth.
I mean just look at what is going on; I don't evem want to describe it because of the disgust I feel.
The next government has a huge task ahead of it; CONSTITUTION; COMPLETE THE LEGAL BASIS FOR GOVERNANCE.
2. JURIILE WILL BECOME THE POLITICALLY DEFINING RESULT FOR FEDERALISM.
Few people even noticed and less even know him, but JURIILE is an individual institution in Puntland and National politics. He was the chief intellectual, "elder statesman" representing Puntland in Parliamentary systems since Abdullahi Yusuf. He was a Senator co-leading Puntland delegation with Faroole.
Until this moment. Deni did not even include him in the LIST despite all lobbying efforts. Just like that, Juriile was sidelined and discarded in these Mafia appointments they call "Senate elections."
Yet Deni nominated and reappointed Fsroole EVEN THOUGH he and Faroole have an even worse relationship and with the controversy within Faroole's clan about his renomination for the seat.
Why?
Faroole is Mohamud Saleebaan/MJ, the same as Deni but JURIILE is Dashiishle of the Harti.
This is the bellwether of this entire "election season."
It will illuminate a lot about both the illegitimacy of this process AS WELL AS what comes to define what informs the legitimacy of "Federalism."
This issue will reverberate in Boosaaso, in Bari, in Puntland and Somalia's faux "federalism."
REMEMBER THE NAME JURIILLE!
3. I shared elsewhere, but when someone askrd for my "analysis" of the moment, I'll say what I said---"no need for analysis, just acknowledgement of basic Truths now before us;
- 4 the Somali people;
- Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.”
- 4 the donors/ic who let madoobe bring 20 years of state building to this point of stark illegitimacy;
- Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are but sometimes you make it possible.”
- 4 the Madasha
- The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.”
- 4 the Federal State Presidents especially Madoobe who went from legal heist to dawning realization they fucked up cosmically and WILL be held accountable;
- Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.”
- 4 Marehan who have singularly borne "its only them" indifference from Somalia including to the illegal Fartaag vote when the same people crying today about illegitimacy even congratulated Madoobe rather than stopping the process then;
- Pay attention to other people's nightmares because they might be contagious.
black of mourning and grief.Let us see how much longer Somalia is willing to sacrifice before finally saying "NO, NO; NO!"
