IJA president calls on MPs to extend the date set for presidential elections

The president of Interim Jubba Administration, Ahmed Mohamed Madoobe has urged IJA assembly to extend the date set for the presidential elections.

Speaking at the parliament, Ahmed whose mandated term will expire this month called legislators to extend the date saying that that elections are not viable given the state of preparedness.

Earlier on the speaker of the Interim Jubba Administration, IJA, assembly, Sheikh Abdi had declared that the regional assembly would conduct presidential elections on 15 August this year.

On 15th May 2013 Ahmed Madobe who is the incumbent president was elected as interim Jubbaland president by more than 500 delegates representing clans and sub-clans in the region.

In August same year, the Federal Government of Somali sent a high level delegation headed by ex-minister for Justice Farah Ma’alin to the Ethiopian capital Addis to negotiate a deal with Jubba-land Administration to bring to an end the political circus which had been ongoing for quite a while.

The state declared June this year that it was severing ties with the Federal government of Somalia after lawmakers in Mogadishu passed a vote of no confidence on the Jubbaland State Assembly.