Abdulkadir Mohamed Aden "Zoppo" | |
|---|---|
| Vice President of Somalia | |
| In office August 1991 – January 1993 | |
| President | Ali Mahdi Muhammad |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1919 (1919) |
| Died | 2002 (aged 82–83) Rome |
| Political party | Hizbiya Digil-Mirifle Somali Youth League |
Abdulkadir Mohamed Aden "Zoppo" (Somali:Cabdulqaadir Maxamed Aadan Zoobe,Arabic:عبدالقادر محمد آدم زوبي), commonly known as Abdulkadir Zoppo or Abdulkadir Soobe, was a Somali politician and formerVice President of Somalia andMinister of Finance.
Aden was born in 1919 inBulo Burti.[1] He was a businessman and politician from theReewin clan.[2] He was a member of Patriotic Benevolent Society in Baidoa in 1940s. He joinedSomali Youth League in 1947. In 1950 he joinedHizbiya Digil-Mirifle party. He was elected member of the legislative assembly in the 1956 elections. He was elected as the vice president ofSomalia National Assembly in May 1959.[3][1] He re-joinedSomali Youth League in 1959. Aden was appointed as the firstMinister of Finance of independent Somalia from 1960 to 1964.[1] He was appointed asMinister of Interior from 1964 to 1967.[1]: 276 He founded the new party Dabka in 1968, and was not re-elected as a member of the assembly inthe 1969 elections.[1]: 20
During the era ofMohamed Siad Barre Aden focused on his business ventures.[1] In the 1980s he joined the opposition against Siad Barre. In 1989, he signed the Manifesto and joined his clansmen in forming the SDM, a paramilitary and political organisation aimed at liberating the Inter riverine region from theSiad Barre regime. Zoobe is credited as an early forerunner of Federalism in Somalia[4] having personally led a campaign since 1950. Aden was theFirst Vice President in theInterim Government of Somalia[1][5] from August 1991 to January 1993. He was a co-chairperson of theNational Salvation Council inSodere in 1997.
He died in Rome in June 2002.[1]: 20
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