Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi


Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi , also known as Irro, is a Somaliland politician, who served as speaker of Somaliland House of Representatives of Somaliland's first-elected parliament. He was elected to the position in November 2005. Abdullahi also previously co-founded the For Justice and Development party. He is likewise the founder and chairman of the Wadani party.

Career

Early career

Professionally, Abdullahi worked at the Settlement Development Agency in different parts of Somalia. From 1981, he took on a position in the foreign service of the Somali Democratic Republic. Abdullahi also served in the Somali Embassy as the first consular in Moscow, which covered the entire Soviet Union. In 1991, he was re-appointed as Somalia's acting Ambassador to the Soviet Union. In this capacity, Abdullahi assisted the many Somali expatriates who had left Somalia following outbreak of the civil war. He later relocated to Finland in 1996 to join his family, who had moved there a few years prior, and subsequently received Finnish citizenship.

UCID Party

In 2002, Abdullahi jointly formed the For Justice and Development political party with Faysal Ali Warabe, a political association aimed at assisting in the reconstruction process in the Somaliland region. He was subsequently elected in the 2005 Somaliland parliamentary election to represent the UCID party in Sahil.
The UCID political party was the first opposition party formally formed in Somaliland after the ruling UDUB party, while other politicians generally focused their opposition against the region's incumbent Egal administration. UCID also supported the referendum which put the foundation for the multi-party system, a process which many politicians have opposed and saw favouring Egal.

2005 Somaliland parliamentary election

held elections to an 82-member House of Representatives on 29 September 2005. It was the first multi-party parliamentary election conducted in Somaliland since 1991, when the civil war began.