MP Cagaweyne Attacks Supreme Court Ruling as Questions Grow Over His Record on Galmudug

Mogadishu (WDN) — Galmudug MP Abdirahman Cagaweyne has launched a sharp attack on the Supreme Court after it annulled the disputed July elections in the federal member state, accusing the court of issuing an unjustified decision without sufficient evidence.

Cagaweyne argued that only the Towfiiq political organization had formally challenged the election and claimed that the alleged irregularities were limited to certain areas. He described the Supreme Court’s decision as “wrong and unjust,” insisting that the court had failed to provide adequate evidence for overturning the results.

The MP’s intervention, however, raises broader questions about his understanding of constitutional law and his record as a federal legislator. For much of his tenure, critics say, Cagaweyne has been conspicuously silent on the Federal Government’s controversial electoral agenda, including the one-sided election model promoted by Villa Somalia, which opposition groups and several political stakeholders have condemned as unconstitutional and lacking broad national consensus.

He has not been equally vocal when constitutional principles and political inclusiveness were at the center of Somalia’s wider electoral dispute. His sudden criticism of the Supreme Court therefore being viewed less as a principled defense of constitutional governance and more as a political intervention at a particularly sensitive moment.