MOGADISHU, Somalia – President Hassan Sheikh congratulated President Said Abdullahi Deni of the northeastern state of Puntland on his milestone re-election.
“It is welcoming that the last elections in Puntland were well-concluded. I congratulate President Deni on his victory,” the president said in a congratulatory statement today.
The statement is titled, ‘President congratulates President Deni on re-election.’
On Monday, the parliament speaker announced the incumbent President as the winner of the election having garnered 45 percent of the votes amounting to 66 cast by lawmakers.
Deni has been at loggerheads with Hassan Sheikh since he lost to him in the May 2022 election and relations between Puntland and Villa Somalia have been at a lower point for two years.
