The Counterfeit Prime Minister of Ethiopia.

By Bereket Tekle

The Counterfeit Prime Minister of Ethiopia.

Colonel, Pastor,Imam, Doctor, 7th King Abiy Ahmed Ali PhD – All Fake!

Ethiopia today is led not by a statesman, but by a charlatan, an actor draped in fake titles and false identities. He calls himself to be a “Doctor,” yet his so-called PhD is a plagiarized hollow paper, a glorified certificate mass-produced to burnish his ego rather than prove real scholarship and intellectual rigor. His speeches are riddled with historical lies, contradictions, and recycled slogans. A real scholar enlightens; this man deceives. His “doctor” title is not a badge of wisdom but a mask for ignorance.

He parades as a “Colonel,” yet has never commanded a real battlefield with honor. Ethiopia’s military history is filled with true heroes who bled and sacrificed. He is not one of them. His rank is a political costume, a prop to convince the unsuspecting that he has the discipline and valor of a soldier. In reality, his wars have been fought not with courage but with propaganda, deception and reckless arrogance, leaving behind mass graves, displaced millions, and a broken army.

On the matter of faith and religion, his deception is even more corrosive. One day he markets himself as a devout Protestant follower of the Prosperity Gospel, baptized in the name of reform. The next, he flaunts a Muslim identity, preaching brotherhood in mosques. He even toys with Orthodox rituals when it suits him. In truth, he believes in nothing but power and the feeding of his insatiable narcissistic ego. He wears religion like a rented suit, put on for the photo op, discarded at will. To him, Islam and Christianity are not sacred faiths but convenient shields. His false piety is an insult to every believer in Ethiopia.

This shapeshifter “leader” is not clever; he is poisonous. By faking every title, he cheapens the institutions that once held meaning. A doctorate becomes a joke. A military rank becomes theater. Faith becomes political merchandise. In his hunger to be seen as everything, he has made a mockery of everything. Ethiopia is left with a man who pretends to be scholar, soldier, imam, and pastor all at once, yet in reality, he is none of them.
The cost of his fakery is staggering. Instead of unity, Ethiopia drowns in division. Instead of stability, it reels from endless wars. Wars he provoked to stay relevant. Instead of prosperity, the country sinks under debt, inflation, and hopelessness. He promised a new Ethiopia; he delivered only new graves. The so-called “Doctor” could not cure the economy, the “Colonel” could not win a war, the “Man of God” could not prevent bloodshed. Every mask has failed.

History will strip him bare. Titles forged in deceit do not survive the test of time. Ethiopia will remember him not as a healer, a soldier, or a reformer, but as a counterfeit who tried to be everything and ended up exposed as nothing. His legacy will not be one of greatness, but of fakery. A cautionary tale of a man who wanted to be worshipped but will be remembered only with contempt.

Ethiopia deserves real leadership, not a fraud in borrowed clothes. Until Ethiopia rids itself of this counterfeit prime minister, the nation will remain shackled to a blood-soaked circus of lies and delusions. He parades in borrowed titles: Doctor, Colonel, Prophet; yet behind the mask stands only a fraud and a warmonger. His hunger for power has turned Ethiopia into a slaughterhouse, where the cries of widows and orphans echo louder than his hollow speeches. Villages burn, and graves multiply, all to feed his vanity and his obsession with war. He does not govern, he manipulates; he does not heal, he wounds; he does not defend, he destroys. His hands are drenched in the blood of innocents, his name cursed by the very people he pretends to lead. The longer he clings to the throne of deceit, the deeper Ethiopia is dragged into the abyss, sacrificed at the altar of one man’s madness.

Enough is enough. The people must rise, tear away his masks of lies, and reclaim their nation from his bloody grip. Freedom will not be handed down, it must be seized, and the time to seize it is now.