Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi has arrived in Baidoa to resign in front of the Parliament later on Monday following a lengthy political feud with President Abdullahi Yusuf, officials and diplomats said.
”He is going to resign. It will be done in front of Parliament,” the minister, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.
The Gedi-Yusuf split had weakened the government as it faced an Islamist-led insurgency this year. It had also frustrated foreign backers including the United Nations and United States.
Three foreign diplomats who follow Somalia also confirmed Gedi would quit.
And a second minister allied to him, Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Maulid Maane Mahamud, told Reuters Gedi had handed in his resignation to Yusuf and Parliament Speaker Sheikh Adan Madobe when he arrived in Baidoa on Monday.
”He raised the issue of his resignation. The president and the speaker of the Parliament requested the prime minister to say it officially in front of the Parliament. He is due to arrive shortly,” Mahamud told Reuters from Parliament. – Reuters