Abiy Ahmed was hated as a pro-Amhara (and by extension also anti-Oromo) amongest many Oromos, even when the person was not seen anywhere near the extremists' camp. The extremists are not in the balance sheet here.
It was professor Merara Gudina, who publicly indicated for the first time to the eventuallity of what we are seeing today, he has been proven right once again.
He knew their calculi of first distancing someone from his own people and then attacking the same from behind, based his own keen knowledge of historical happenstances. We have lived to be a true witness of his testimoney.
There is an Afan Oromo saying which goes like ሀርኪ ደበሬ ወል-ዲቃ (one hand washes the other, mutually).
The people who have been sponsoring the spilling of their own fellow citizens's blood to score politically, but not to avail, now came forward, without any dent of a shame, using the very foundation of the Ethiopian long standing institution, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
This will also not succeed, hell may break out!
Never try us, this time around!