People that participated in the civil war should be worrying about war crime tribunals, not poisoning our already precarious progress.
If you were a part of that evil, get out and stay out
The whole reason he run for the senate was to ward of those tribunals because it gives him immunity, nobody would have voted for him otherwise, he simply played the card of shame and begged his way to this seat, he was prepared to start an internal sub-clan war over this like he did in the 90's and as a result none of our intellectuals contested with him to avoid blood shed.
As for heading up the dastuur that's because of that buffoon faroole announcement that he will run for it, a Tuug who is far more dangerous today then someone like qeybdiid who is clueless and terrified for his life, he will do whatever he is told unlike Faroole who will do whatever he can to destroy Somalia so they could go back to profiting from chaos like they had post 90's for more then two decades usurping all funds.
Everyone was rattled and opposed to Faroole including the government except for a few MP's in his region, when he was in charge he insulted pretty much every clan, region & MP's waging multiple internal wars in his own region. He would have caused some serious damage to this government and nation if he won that is nothing compared to what you see at present.
Hence what was required was someone that could beat him and could also be controlled while delegitimising this important post, and he was the perfect candidate for this, they pretty much begged him to run for this, he had no interest beyond the senate immunity.