By Suleiman Sabdow

Somalia’s Federal Electoral Implementation committee Team (FEIT) has nullified elections results for two seats over concerns of manipulation in the exercise.

The two seats, HOP 154 and 103 outcome held in South West and Galmudug had been rejected by stakeholders and candidates who claimed their were irregularities in the poll.

Former Lower House speaker Mohamed Osman Jawari who was among candidates who contested in the elections alleged that he was locked out from race to defending his seat HOP 103.

The Federal committe in a press release has ordered for a repeat of the elections of the two seats in a yet to be declared date.

This development coming amid heightened and sustained debate over the transparency of the ongoing elections by contestors.

In a series of meetings to quell the disquiet, Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has been holding series of meetings at his official residence and office in an attempt to bring to halt the growing concerns over the management of the elections.

The Prime Minister had on last week met with the council of presidential candidates who have vowed to boycott the ongoing parliamentary elections over malpractices.

PM Roble also today held a closed door meeting with former premier Omar Abdirashid Sharmake in the wake of claims of vote riggings in the Horn of Africa Nation which is reeling from decades civili war that has crippled critical sectors in the country.

Sharmake who has been away from the country for the past fours years had returned to Mogadishu  a few days ago and had met with the opposition presidential candidates with sources close to the meeting revealing that they might be forming a new political alliance to bolster their efforts to having a free and fair elections and succeed president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo.

Council of opposition presidential candidates had in a presser early last week threatened early to boycott the ongoing parliamentary elections alleging that the elections have been hijacked and that there are wanton corruption and irregularities in the exercise.

the 15 member council said the ongoing House of representatives elections could plunge the volatile country into unprecedented chaos and upheaval if their concerns about the transparency and credibility of the process are not addressed immediately.

They outlined that they will not take part in the elections terming it a ‘naked robbery’ and illegality in the thick of growing concerns on the new decision taken by the council which political pundits say will bring forth an uncertainty on the electoral process of the country which has been married with delays.