Radar | Nov 13,2021
Oct 28 , 2025
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) delivered an impassioned address to Parliament today, casting himself as a visionary leader beset by skeptics, and vowing that no one, internal or external would "steal his dream of transformation."
Abiy, whose rhetoric has often blurred the line between metaphor and politics, leaned heavily on parables as he defended his Administration's controversial politicsl course and macroeconomic policies.
“We don't lead like Lada drivers,” he said, invoking the Derg era mode of public transport cars in Addis Abeba, manufactured in the Soviet Union. “We lead like the bus driver."
According to his, both drivers may know may know their departure points and their destinations. However, when bus drivers stay on course of their routes, stopping at designated stations, Lada taxi drivers are at the command of their passangers drung turns and twists.
His message is clear in that Ethiopia’s future, under his stewardship, would not be left to chance or indecision. Amid mounting criticism over the country’s economic turbulence and security crises, the Prime Minister painted himself as a driver and dreamer, steering a country forward against the drag of doubt.
“Many try to steal our dreams,” he told federal lawmakers. “But whoever wants, whoever tries, they can't take them from us.”
With macroeconomic stability threatened by inflation, foreign exchange shortages, and an unresolved conflict in several regions, Abiy’s speech doubled as a rebuke to naysayers and a rallying cry for national unity.
“Our dream of prosperity is coming true,” he insisted, invoking the country’s aspiration to rank among Africa’s economic giants. “No one can stop us. Working together to achieve this is a matter for all of us.”
Abiy’s address was dense with allegory, a strategy to transcend the mundane grind of legislative address. Recalling the story of a teacher who dismisses a student’s ambition as mere fantasy, the Prime Minister casted himself as the exception.
“The teacher said it was not a dream, it was a nightmare. But the student proved him wrong.”
The idioms are unmistakable that Abiy sees his leadership as inspired and embattled, an Administration misunderstood by cynics but destined, in his telling, for vindication.
In w rhetorical style that sounded part inspiration and part self-justification, the Prime Minister insisted that “no one can steal our dream.”
Today' Parliament session came amid speculation over looming debt negotiations, new rounds of international mediation over the Nile River and concerns about the durability of his economic reforms.
Yet, for all the allusion and ambiguity, Abiy’s central message was that his path will be charted by dreamers, not doubters.
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