King makers in Recent Ethiopian politics

In Ethiopia there have been king makers who have used a manipulative techniques in order to assign their favourite emperor on the throne. The king makers were keen  to be a back up or the main decision makers behind the screen.
In our country , when emperor Minilik passed away, almost for some time( seven  years) it had not be revealed to the public that the emperor had died , The Ethiopian people was at dark.
During those years the public believed that the emperor was alive where as the emperor had died, at that particular time where the modern technology and the media  infra structure was not there,  it was easy to keep the nation in a complete dark , or to keep secrets from the public
 Neverthless the palace was using some techniques in order to show to the public that the emperor was alive, For instance two Imperial mules were ready for use and they had been standing in the palace as if the emperor was alive  and a sign to the public to give an impression that he was ready to travel for  his Imperial routine duties, it was  a kind of disguise.
The main reason to hide the news from the public was  for safety and  stability of the country. 
Emperor  Minilik had given his words to his people that his throne should passed to his grand son lij Eyassu. How ever the queen (wife of emperor) was so powerful. She was looking to be in the power. At times she was very concerned and she was preparing her cliques as well as Her brother Ras Wolle was behind her and he had backed her . Any way the shewan aristocrats was reluctant to Eteges  ambition they had expelled her from the palace. They had sent her to  Entoto.
At last lij Eyassu became the Ethiopian  emperor,  he was at odd with Shewan  Aristocrats. He was favouring Wollo any way the Shewan aristocrats had forced him to leave the throne.

They replaced him by  Queen Zewiditu, and  Teferi Mekonen (Atse Haile sillasse as crown prince ...with full authority). Which means that the queen had not had the full power.In this power struggle the architect and the leader of this power struggle was Fitawrari Habtegiorgis. He was the one who had been successfully plotted the conspiracy and he assigned Tefri mekonen as Crown prince later as an Emperor. At last Emperor Hailesilasse managed to be independent , at the end he sacked Habtegirogis himself , even Fitawrari Habtegirogis  said at that time  ''We comfortably made him a king but it became impossible to denounce him ( or throw him ) out of the crown.'' .
  In Amharic ''Tekemiten yesekelenew komen mawred akateris'' any way Aba mella was a king maker.
Recently in the 21 th century two king makers were  fighting to each other. When Meles Zenawi died all of a sudden it was a shock to Ethiopians. The ruling party was in panic.
As usual for about two months it was a blank , no body was having an information , especially the ruling elite was busy in doing their home work.
There was a division between two groups Bereket/ Beaden and Sibhat/TPLF. The sibihat group was not keen in assigning a PM -outside their Ethnic group but Bereket since he is a communication minster, media is for him. So he announced that the deputy chairman  would be a prime minster , his group has done the work underground. The Beaden Amharas were in charge . All the key players  were Addissu, Teferra Waluwa, Tadesse Shinkute ... and so on . They have side lined the Woyane/Tigres.
The woyane/tigres which is the Sibhat group up to the last minute they were expecting  that Meleses' health condition would be improved and he would be at the office. In the mean time the Bereket /Beaden  group worked their underground  work they succeeded to assign their man at the top of the helm of the PM office.
Any way this is a play of king makers . At last not least Bereket/Beaden   are the king makers of this century , where as Fitawrari Habtegirogis was the king maker of 20 th century.
For a while Sibhat failed to be a  king maker , he lost the game . as usual he is barking here and there , talking a provocative issues like an old mad.