{"id":279046,"date":"2019-06-15T21:31:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiaWh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8xNS9hYml5LWRvbWluYXRpb24tb2YtZXRobmljLW9yb21vLWluLWdvdnQtcG9zaXRpb25zLWktd2lsbC1yZXNpZ24taW4tMjQtaHJzL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:11","slug":"abiy-ahmed-said-in-dessie-he-would-resign-within-a-day-if-oromo-officials-dominated-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279046","title":{"rendered":"Abiy Ahmed said in Dessie he would resign within a day if Oromo officials dominated government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 June 2019 Borkena reported that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told a Dessie public meeting he would resign within twenty-four hours if ethnic Oromo officials dominated government posts, while denying that such domination existed.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-601434\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/amhara-lalibela-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Abiy Ahmed said in Dessie he would resign within a day if Oromo officials dominated government\" \/>\n<p>The remark, captured on video according to Borkena, came during the same Amhara visit where residents pressed him on the constitution and national unity.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics archive, the Borkena report dates Abiy Ahmed\u2019s Dessie pledge on ethnic balance in public office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/15\/abiy-domination-of-ethnic-oromo-in-govt-positions-i-will-resign-in-24-hrs\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abiy : If there is domination of ethnic Oromo in gov&#8217;t positions, I will resign in 24 hrs&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comIn a meeting with residents of Dessie, Abiy Ahmed says there is no domination of ethnic Oromo in government positions. Watch video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/amhara-lalibela-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aAK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755235,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279046\/revisions\/755235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}