By Observer2013
Top 10 reasons why Lenco Lata and Co. should consider dissolving Oromo Dialogue Forum (ODF) and doing something productive for themselves and the Oromo people.
1. Oromo/Oromia has too many leaders who are capable of leading the struggle other than them;
2. They have the right to create a party, but anything they establish, ODF included, is going to fail because they lack popular credibility because of unsuccessful credentials in leading the struggle for over 40 years; What changed now? Did the Lencos morph into other superhero figures all of a sudden?
3. Lack of struggle-related methodological clarity won't make them different from OPDO or Oromo Federalist Congress; they will surely lose if they go home. They will be thrown into jail like Bekele Gerba, Olabana Lelisa, Birtukan Midekssa, Andualem Arage and Eskinder Nega and so on;
4.Gracefully retire (gadamoojja'uu ykn soorata ba'uu) and write books/memoirs specific to their field experience in the Oromo national struggle so people can learn from why they failed;
5. ODF has already held way too many pointless public meetings and wasted valuable time and money. We have never seen any new party that has gone on meeting-spree in such a short time in our entire life;
6. Be around their families and prepare for personal health issues related to the last years of their lives;
7. Get over memory failure that no Abyssinian would give up power for majority or democratic rule without military + diplomatic victories;
8. Alliance with G7 and northern reactionary parties is a wrong and unsustainable path to freedom. Alliance with oppressed peoples of the South such as Oromia, Afar, Ogaden/Somali, SNNP, Gambella, Gumuz would have made much more sense given the common history of colonization and persecution. As always, ODF leaders have no plan B,C, D, E... and Z; ODF just wants to create unnecessary divisions/confusions to no avail while the Oromo camp is in the process of consolidating historic unity;
9. Western governments respect and support only those opposition groups who have demonstrated strength or real-politkal power (military strength, popular support). "Haatuu ilma dadhabaa hinjaallattu!" jedha mitiiree jechamini Oromootuu? [Even a mother does not like a weak and submissive kid.]; and
10. A party established out of personal vendetta for being fired from OLF because of disciplinary issues is a house of cards; it will fall apart if a strong pro-liberation wind blows and shuns these big losers, I don't mean weight although that is also true.