Suleiman Mohamoud Adan

Suleiman Mohamoud Adan, also known as Saleebaan Gaal is a Somaliland politician and the speaker of Somaliland House of Elders since 28 August 2004.

Biography

Suleiman Mohamoud Adan Yusuf was born in 1937. He belongs to the Solomadow subclan of the Habr Je'lo Isaaq.
Suleiman worked as a teacher and principal in various schools throughout Somalia, eventually rising to become the director of the Somali Curriculum Development Office. In 1980 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Education, and in 1987 he was appointed the Deputy Minister of Fisheries. He later defected to the Somali National Movement in 1989.
In 1991 he was appointed Minister of Interior in Somaliland's first government under President Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur. Under President Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal's administration, he also served as Minister of Education and later as the Minister of Finance.
In 1997, he contested Somaliland’s 1997 presidential election against incumbent President Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal and Mohamed Hashi, though Egal retained the presidency. He also contested the 2002 Somaliland municipal elections as chairman of the ASAD political association before later joining the then ruling UDUB party after ASAD's dissolution.
In 2004 he was elected Speaker of the House of Elders, a legislative body comprising 82 members with six-year terms.