Shiferaw Shigute

The much-maligned head of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front's southern wing Shiferaw Shigute who is from Sidama resigned this week over the ethnic violence...

An immediate rival of Abiy for the premiership Shiferaw Shigute from the south was given an expanded Agriculture Ministry while another Demeke Mekonnen from the Amhara National Democratic Movement remains Deputy Prime Minister...

A more common explanation is that the TPLF tried to give the impression to both ANDM and their other preferred candidate Shiferaw Shigute of the Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement that it would be supporting them...

With the schedule unclear the EPRDF now has to choose between: Abiy; Shiferaw Shigute boss of the EPRDF Secretariat and Hailemariam's replacement as head of the multi-ethnic Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement (SEPDM); and Demeke Mekonnen who is Deputy Prime Minister Deputy Chairman of the EPRDF and Chairman of the Amhara section of the Front the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM)...

Among those due to retire from the ERPDF Executive Committee in October are Shiferawu Shigute (SEPDM's Deputy Chairman) Redwan Hussein (Minister of the government's Communications Authority Office) Mekuria Haile and Shiferaw Tekelemariam (SEPDM) Bereket and Ayalew Gobeze (ANDM) Abay Woldu (President of Tigray Regional State) Tewodros Adhanom (Foreign Minister) and Tewodros Hagos (TPLF) Mukhtar Kedir (President Oromo Regional State) and Diriba Kuma (OPDO Addis Mayor)...

The party's Deputy Chairman Shiferawu Shigute is from the Sidama who are still determined to acquire the status of a separate regional state...

Hailemariam a Wolaita remains Chairman of the SEPDM while the State President and Deputy Chairman of the party is Shiferawu Shigute a Sidama...