Document for PM’s advisors reveals that officials of Amhara and Oromia regions are siding with Ginbot 7 and OLF

ESAT News

August 09, 2014

A document that was prepared by Addisu Legese, former Deputy PM and now top official and trainer within the ruling Front, EPRDF, for the advisors of the Ethiopian Prime Minister, states that officials in the Amhara region are siding with the Ginbot 7 opposition Movement while officials of the OPDO, Oromo region, are aligning with the opposition Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).

The document also reveals that the Front is faced with a leadership crisis, the transformation process has not been successful, and that there is no loyal official in Gambella region.

The 39 pages document, titled “Capacity Building to Castrate EPRDF’s oppositions and the Transformation Journey”, was prepared at the end of July and was sent to the PM’s advisors namely Bereket Simon, Kuma Demeksa and Destaw.

It states that in order to bring the country out of poverty and put it along developed countries, it requires a capable leadership, “which the Front is now in trouble of”.

The document notes Melaku Fenta, the former Director of Ethiopian Revenue Commission, now imprisoned, and Oumd Obong, the former President of Gambella Region, who now has defected, as examples of the crisis.

Despite the fact that the officials of the Amhara region and Oromia’s OPDO have been found siding with Ginbot 7 and OLF and were neglectful abuses on Amhara people, there is a leadership in Tigray, Benishangul Gumz, Afar, Somali and Harar regions that is capable of winning the election next year, it added.

The report recommends that the Front should change the way it recruits and trains its members for the success of the “transformation journey”.

As the interaction and relationship between the four member parties of the EPRDF is weak, members found between top and middle levels of leadership are being given trainings.

The document finally notes that the majority of EPRDF’s members are farmers, which has caused the Front a problem in creating a good number of political leaders, requiring it to focus on universities and urban areas to find new recruits.

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