Sam Ebalalehu wrote: ↑11 Mar 2021, 07:45
The guy needs medication. If true this is one of “Biltsegna” party political candidate, it is extremely disturbing. If the party is populated by persons of this kind, who is obviously damaged by inferiority complex, the future of the party is bleak.
He hates Addis Abebans. He hates even the name Ethiopia.
Even by the tribal politicians standard this foul-mothed, arrogant is the worst kind.
Sam Ebalalehu,
Let’s put it into a context and see how it looks like.
First I don’t condone the guy’s used words, if not for anything, definitely for the generalization. I am not from Addis Ababa but still have many relatives in Addis and I have no moral ground to degrade in somehow those relatives (and the rest of the citizens living there in fact).
On the main point I should point out that the guy is not campaigning for a Seat in Addis districts, rather in East-Hararghe Zone of Oromia region, so I don’t understand why someone is calling on Addis citizens to abandon the PP for an opinion of an individual who is not campaigning for Addis itself. This is faking it up, like the others also already indicated.
Second the guy used to have, as far as I remember, a Youtube channel and used that to propagate his views to those of his supporters using it as his platform. At sometime in the past he decided to part his ways from the likes of Jawar Mohammed and cohorts and opted to side with PP and for that he was receiving barrage of insults and dehumanizing character assassinations of all kinds for that from the camp he decided to abandon. Even in the video here he has got very much harsh words for the camps of Oromo extremists and calling on his supporters to abandon the entity and join the PP. He has used similarly harsh words for TPLF and OLF-Shane here too.
Which means he is one of the personalities serving as the connections to the grass-roots for PM Abiy Ahmed and enable him to garner the support he is currently enjoying in the Oromia region. Without such people calling on their supporters to come out and support the PM, then I doubt if Ethiopia would have also scored the same victory over TPLF before few months, which many applauded, at least at the face value. So, when he is supporting, he is good, when not then suddenly a cursed fellow.
Let’s also have a look at what he said more closely. He described people from the city as people who don’t know much about their roots, in essence.
Let me take for this as an example Ermias Legesse himself. I think his family name bears a name called Wakijira (which is an Oromo name) and he made no secret that he doesn’t like his being Oromo (which he calls Oromummaa = Oromoness and equated it with his sworn enemy nr. 1).
The internet character wedi, who is defintely a staunch supporter of Ermias Legesse, if not Ermias Legesse himself (I am the opinion that he is actually Ermias Legesse), posts not a single message without using the G-word to disparage the Oromo people, for what ever reason. This has nothing to do with having a differing opinion from others, it is all about disparaging the biggest chunk of the Ethiopian people, while claiming to care about the same Ethiopian people at the same time. That makes wedi to admit that he doesn’t know about his own roots, either as Ermias Legesse, who is disparaging his own root, or as a certain supporter of Ermias Legesse, who is disparaging the root of someone he claims to be a strong supporter.
So what is the difference between the two now? Wedi has essentially affirmed the guy’s allegations, if any.
In fact Ermias Legesse is someone who publicly lied, not only once but on multiple occasions, and then came back to the same public with a thick skin and started it all over again and I don’t think that kind of character with lack of slightest does of integrity may have got any left over moral ground to try to dehumanize others. Nor do his "supporters", the likes of wedi.
In my view this guy, even when I disagree with what he said in the clips, is much better than the one who lied in public and then lacked any shame to get lost and still trying to appear to be relevant about the common issues of the people he knowingly lied to.
That is the current Galla politics since Tgres are gone for good
