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Mogadishu (WDN) – Former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who continues to push forward with his unilateral one-person, one-vote (1P1V) electoral plan, is facing mounting and increasingly fierce opposition from across Somalia’s political, traditional, and civil society sectors. Opposition leaders, regional administrations, elders, and activists have raised growing concerns that the process lacks consensus and risks deepening political divisions and instability at a time when the country is in a dangerous road.

In a blistering condemnation, opposition figure and Member of Parliament Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame issued a sharp political critique of the former President Hassan Sheikh, drawing a stark contrast between the broad coalition of forces that once brought him to power and the increasingly isolated political position in which he now finds himself.

In a lengthy statement widely circulated on social media, Abdirahman Abdishakur argued that Hassan Sheikh rose to power through alliances, political partnerships, and opposition cooperation, but once in office governed as though he had seized the country through force alone.

“Hassan Sheikh came to power through the support of allies, friends, and opposition coalitions,” the opposition leader wrote. “But once he entered office, he behaved like a man who single-handedly conquered the state.”