Zadig Abraha promoted to the rank of minister

Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has named Zadig Abraha as his media and public relations delivery unit head under the rank of minister.
Zadig, a Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) member, has been serving as the government communication affairs office as deputy minister for the past nine months. He worked under Negeri Lencho, member of the ruling coalition’s Oromo party, the OPDO, with whom he often clashed, according to reports.
Zadig has been in the national spotlight for some time now, after picked by the late Meles Zenawi on April 2011 to serve as deputy general director of the renaissance hydropower project coordination office. He was few years later assigned to serve as the director of justice & legal system research institute. Some in the know say that Zadig is being “groomed” by TPLF to replace Hailemariam Desalegn who is expected to leave office in the coming election after three years. Several people who worked with Zadig describe him as boastful and arrogant.