Does he not know that Madobe is literally in Xabash's back pocket lol what is this.
You must not be familiar with JL or Ogaden politics in general. Madoobe is ONLF aligned and easily the most anti-Ethiopian figure in SO. Kenyas prolonged stay in JL was largely due to our enmity with the TPLF and Ethiopia who did not want an ONLF base/port and backed Gedo/Xamar based warlords against Gaandhi and Madoobe. It is the sole reason he enjoys such deep support.
Gedo as a whole and by extension Doolow/Luuq will at times carry the JL name or fly a GM flag but they are an “
independent” entity or at the least a series of seperate entities(city-states) largely under Ethiopias suzerainty. Its why JLs VP and HSM go into Ethiopias turf to make deals and not them coming to our tables.
Ethiopia contested JL state until we agreed to the merger with Gedo as our 3rd gobol.
HSM is a desperate man with no dignity, I gotta say tho its very weird how a few months after Abiy sent his goons to blow up a SNA base HSM is still smiling and shaking hands with him, HOA politics are very weird
HSM had a very close relationship with Ethiopia against Madoobe in term one. HSM has confidence that he can get Ethiopia to pressure Doolow-Luuq ‘governors’ to back his paper admin and he is probably right.
JL will decide HSMs fate and he is willing to shame the nation like he did with Egypt and the Abay dam to secure his elections by another 10%.