His knowledge of politics, competitive politics, plural ideologies espoused by different groups to achieve public goods other than that of a tyrant who espouses all ideologies-in-one to look like, to hoodwink, to be in all places at once, a conservative, a liberal, a socialist, feminist, and environmentalist.
For Whorus, in fact, public good has no meaning in his ignorance of politics other than state or government goods or interests. Machiavellian. He lives in the 1600s Rome. A political Neanderthal.
A mistake made out of ignorance doesn't absolve him from responsibilities of his actions. To know that which is right and act accordingly is every individual's responsibility. He should be held to account for his wilfull ignorance of the evils of Abiy's dictatatorship and negligence to the suffering of the Ethiopian people.