Oromo extremists are reportedly plotting to create a friction between the top leadership of OPDO and the country at large, especially between Dr. Abey Ahmed, the PM, and Obbo Lemma Megersa, the Minister of Defense. In doing so, they are trying to play the same game that was played very recently in the highest echelon of state power of the Amhara region that has eventually costed the lives of many innocent citizens.
The agitation is happening after some of the operatives of the Oromo extremist’s camp visited Mekele recently, if not conceived thereafter, definitely upgraded since then. Now the campaign looks like that they are favoring Ato Lemma Megerssa over Dr. Abey Ahmed, seemingly, and it is open in the public. I said seemingly because they have no other favoritism than their ambition to power that lasts long.
The talk in the public arena clearly shows that they are dismayed that they didn't get a share in the power structure of the country, without indicating which party they belong to and how that party, if existed, would have been given a power-sharing arrangment, in a country that is being run by a constitution that the extremists themselves sometimes seemed to even defend, calling “it is a good constitution and as such shouldn't be amended or modified”.
As it is typical of them, they continue to mute when it comes to how they would make it differently (in crafting and implementing of public policies), had they have been given the much sought after power-sharing ambition. Nowhere in their bickering do they talk about something related to policy issues other than the consistent complaining about their being "left-out". It seems to me, but I am not sure, that they are also trying to draw some figures who used to take the middle ground so far to their side of the political spectrum in this campaign.
True Ethiopians need to rally behind the cause of truth and defend the peace and security of the country and tell the extremists that the fate of the country can't be taken hostage to the power-mongering wish of few extremists among us.
I heard recently Lencho Leta commenting something like: "our biggest mistake during the course of our struggle has been our failure to recognize some members of the OPDO as our allies, as an instance the likes of Obbo Lemma Megerssa", explicitely mentioning the name of the Defense Minister and skipping any other name on that instance, whether by design or coincidence..
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