Ethiopia's Oromo genocidal dictator Abiy Ahmed tells his parliament that Fano fighters won't be able to remove him from power because there's an ethnic wall between his base in Addis Ababa and the rebels.
Abiy invaded the Amhara province in April to capture Eskinder Nega and other fano leaders. The operation failed and led to an all-out war between the regional militia who joined Fano forces and Abiy Ahmed's Oromo military.
In a few days' operations, Fanos were able to sweep the entire Amhara region, but Abiy forces started heavy shelling of civilian cities which forced Fano forces to withdraw from major cities to avoid civilian causality and destruction of their cities.
The war is in its fifth month now. Fanos have maintained their grip on 80% of the region and are steadily expanding to previously unaffected areas like South Wollo. Their recruits also increased into half a million. This huge progress is in just five months.
Abiy and his genocidal regime understood the grim reality of their campaign in Amhara region and seem to be conceding total defeat. So now they are bragging about Fano fighters being unable to make it out of the Amhara region and remove the government from Addis Ababa because there's an ethnic wall that protects their power base.
The poor logic put forward by Abiy in the latest speech to law makers in Addis Ababa is Ethiopia is divided by ethnic walls as it is an ethnic federation so rebels who start from somewhere can not make it out of their ethnic enclave to reach Addis Ababa which is at the heart of the 1993-created Oromiya region.
Abiy and his advisors like Daniel Kibret are simply saying they can outsource an ethnic war to protect Addis Ababa and their palace. The same logic was used about TPLF in 2020. But despite being surrounded by Eritrean army, Amhara and Afar regions, the TPLF was able to break out of the Tigray ethnic enclave and destroy half of Amhara and Afar region to reach North Shoa in November 2021. If the TPLF was good enough to gain little traction from Amhara, it could have toppled Abiy.
Fano forces have not formed alliance with other forces so far but there are recruits in their army from other tribes including Oromos. A high-ranking officer who is an ethnic Sidama from the former Ethiopian army defected to Fano fighters earlier this week.