In addition to Tesfaye Dinka, Ras Abebe Aregay, an Oromo and the Grandson of Gobena Dache the greatest, was the third Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 27 November 1957 – 17 December 1960.
I was also expecting Tsedale, as someone who works to get the facts straight, correct the host of BBC Africa when he mistakenly said that Dr. Abiye Ahmed is the country’s first Oromo leader because I expect that Tsedale at least know Gen. Teferi Benti, an Oromo, was a president of Ethiopia from 28 November 1974 – 3 February 1977.
It is also on the record that Mengistu Hailemariam himself said he was born from an Oromo father. I don’t think General Tesfaye Gebrekidan, the last president of Ethiopia before the donwfall of the Derg, was none other than an Oromo. Ethiopian leaders with an Oromo bloodline aren’t new for centuries.