Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has repeated during his private gatherings and meetings that his former vice and prime minister Khaled Bahah were not his choices for the two positions. Bahah was nominated for the position of PM according to the agreement of National Partnership and Peace signed in September 2014 and the President has nothing to do with that. In April 2015 Bahah also selected the Vice President and according to Hadi he also was not his choice.

From this point in time disagreement has occurred between the two men. The reasons for this in my opinion could include the fact that Bahah is an ambitious young man with an eloquent tongue- good at speaking and managing dialogue benefiting from his experience as a diplomat.

The weakness of President Hadi is that he became President because he was Vice President to Ali Abdullah Saleh and replaced him when the President was removed. Hadi is afraid for his position and that is why he began to discourage his ViceBahah creating obstacles for him and doubt about him.

The first leak about the failure of Bahah to run state affairs properly came from a former minister now in his eighties and close to President Hadi. I talk about this in an article dated 21 August 2015 under the title “Wisdom and political gossiping are Yemeni’s”. I warned about the sicknesses of the Yemeni political administration- the problem of political gossiping and undermining of the role of the Yemeni leadership because these will make the state weak in the eyes of the Arab coalition whose backbone is the GCC states.

The gap between the President and his Vice was widening day after day until the moment of Bahah’s impeachment came when the President took action and assigned him a role only as jobless consultant for the Presidential Office.

No doubt President Hadi committed political mistakes against his Vice and PM Bahah in his speech to the Yemeni people and the Arab Alliance. In his speech he mentioned that the government had failed to perform its dutiesand he sacked the PM Bahah but he kept the other cabinet members without change. The question is why the PM was removed and all other ministers remained in their positions? Why did he not ask the new PM Ahmed Obeid bin Daghrto form a new government to address the problems that the former government failed to solve?

President Hadi was supposed to thanks his Vice and the PM Bahah for their efforts and remove them politely in a way that befits the position of presidency. The president should be aware that he himself is actually one of the top failures since the day Houthis began to move from Sa’ada city to Amran through Dammaj. He himself was the one who asked the National Military to stay neutral without getting involved in tribal disputes and this helped the Houthis to gain control of the capital Sanaa and march to the South until they controlled the whole country.

The President is the General Commander of the armed forces but he failed to play his role and remained passive until the Houthis kept him under home arrest.

President Hadi knows that the Yemeni Government has no budget or income and that it only just had enough to ensure the salaries of the government’s employees in this state of civil war. What role could the President have played to help the country avoid this war? What did he do to get financial resources for the budget of the government?

The fact is that any Prime Minister assigned by President Hadi will fail to do his tasks properly because the President is assigning him a job without giving him the right to form the cabinet or providing him with the required sources of money to run the government.

Even if I respect Khalid Bahah and appreciate his political and administrative capabilitiesI would say without hesitation the truth- that he also committed mistakes in issuing his statement clearly opposing the decision to dismiss him. I wish he had issued two statements- one congratulating the Lieutenant General Ali Muhsin who replaced him in the position of Vice President and the other congratulating Ahmad bin Daghar in the position of Prime Minister wishing both of them success in their tasks.

He should have followed the footsteps of the famous General Khalid bin Walid who was dismissed by the then Caliph Umar bin Al Khattab during Al Yarmuk War replacing him with Abi Obaida bin Al Jarrah as Commander of the Muslim Army. Khalid welcomed the decision of the Caliph and announced that he will keep affiliated to the Army and work as a solider even if it was under the wife of the new commander Ibn Al Jarrah.

I wish he could have met each of them separately to brief them about his experience with President Hadi and the problems he faced while he was running the government under the leadership of Hadi. I believe that appointing Lieutenant General Ali Mohsin Al Ahmar as Vice President was the best decision. He is the best candidate and the most suitable man for this position at this time. The President and the Alliance Forces especially Saudi Arabia should give this gentleman all possible financial support and military power to achieve its goal. Suppressing the renegades from the regime and restoring law and order and peace and stability throughout Yemen are on the top priorities.

We do not have any doubt about the abilities of the new PM Ahmad bin Daghar his political skills and experience and patriotism. His predecessor Khalid Bahah was no less than him in his capabilities and talents and both originated from Hazarmout. So what is the new thing that made the President dismiss Bahah?

The street talk in Yemen says that President Hadi secured his future by dismissing Bahah from the position of Vice President and PM. The Houthis and Saleh were expected to demand the removal of the President and that he handover the office to his Vice Bahah in the forthcoming talks scheduled to be held in Kuwait.

If Vice President Bahahhad remained in power he might have been asked to remove the President of Yemen later in order to handover heavy weapons and clear Yemeni cities from the rebelsto put an end to the armed conflict. However now that he has assigned Ali Muhsin in Bahah’s position then they will not demand that he submits the President Office position to his Vice.

I pray for the success of both gentlemen Ali Mohsin Al Ahmar and Ahmad Obaid bin Daghr in their jobs and that he saves them from the changing moods of the presidency. Oh Allah everything is in your hands.