In May 2019 eNCA reported that former Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn said Africa still had a long way to go in making democracy deliver, and he criticized leaders who overstay their welcome in office.
Coming from a premier who had resigned in 2018 amid protest pressure, the remark was read as both a personal defense of stepping down and a jab at peers who refuse to leave.
Term-limit talk from Ethiopian elites matters because the Horn still mixes elections with long personal rule next door in Eritrea and elsewhere.
Kept as politics archive, Hailemariam’s overstaying-leaders line is a dated elite comment from Abiy Ahmed’s early transition years.
Sources: eNCA