Hargeisa(SD) – Leaders, supporters and candidates of the Wadani opposition party, rallied in the regions and districts of Somaliland on the third day of Somaliland’s local and Parliamentary election campaign.

Thousands of supporters, some waving and wearing the Wadani party’s orange flag, filled the Wadani party’s campaign events early in the morning.

Top Wadani party leaders, local council candidates and representatives, and their supporters, gathered at the Freedom Park in Hargeisa early in the morning, where they held their largest rally.

Party chairman and presidential candidate Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi (Cirro) said his party had worked hard to ensure that the election occur.

“The Wadani party and I, the chairman of the Wadani party, have put in a lot of effort and we have put up with a lot of things that were could not be tolerated, we have shown patience, so that the election can take place.” he said. “Today we have arrived and are heading for the May 31 by-elections in Somaliland,” he added.

The speaker, meanwhile, condemned this week’s attacks on opposition party offices in Las Anod.

“Anything preventing the election from taking place peacefully is unacceptable, I strongly condemn the cowardly act, which took place at the Wadani and UCID offices in Las Anod,” he said.

Today’s Wadani party campaign is on its first day, with the country’s election campaign continuing for the third day in a row.

Somaliland will hold it’s long delayed local council and parliamentary elections on March 31st.