Amilla wrote:
let me get this straight, You oppose him just because he is "anti-federalism" and that doesn't benefit Puntland in anyway?
I don't think this is good new for Puntland at all because Puntland is independent from Transitional Federal Government and what is going in southern Somalia doesn't have much effect on Puntland. Having said that, the issue of Federalism should be nogotiated when TFG brings peace to much of the southern regions and is in a position where they can deal with both Puntland and Somaliland.
Farmaajo has done a lot of Southern Somalis. Majority of Somalis are united regardless of what tribe they are from because they see this man as competent, hard working and honest man who will take southern Somalia into a new direction. He is a man of the people and that can't be denied. I was just listening to VAO and it was mind boggling to me how many people support him.
We all know that so long as Mogadishu and southern regions are in tormoil the rest of the coutry is not going to move on despite their relative peace.
you have to understand one thing; you can not support the current tfg and support puntland at the same time. they are two opposing ideas. the tfg wants to run/control the entire country from mogadishu and puntland wants power-sharing so are you anti or pro federalism?
puntland is a state within somalia and the tfg claims to be the governing body of somalia, so puntland is NOT independent from the tfg. the current tfg wants to accumulate $$$ on behalf of somalia and then keep that money within mogadishu and we can not let that happen again. every state within somalia deserves their fair share of the pie and puntland will not sit on the sidelines and hope and pray the tfg changes its stance. we will not isolate ourselves like somaliland.
of course farmaajo has supporters, but it would be a lie to say he has supporters from every district in somalia. his supporters are the usual suspects. you still have not mentioned anything farmaajo has done for "somalia". i'm sorry but having supporters is not an accomplishment.