Ahmed Mohamed Islam

The FGS faced criticism from observers for engaging in political feuds with federal states to gain control in the upcoming election, rather than focusing on the fight against Islamist group Al-Shabaab. In June 2020 the FGS recognised Madobe, but only as 'interim' President of Jubaland State with a two-year mandate, contrary to the Jubaland State constitution which provides for a four-year mandate.

Madobe controversially won the elections of 2019 with no significant opponent. opposition has said Ahmed was undemocratic during his previous term commission of working to skew results in his favour

In August 2019 Madobe was sworn into office for four years. Ahmed won more than two-thirds of the votes cast by the semi-autonomous region's lawmakers in the port city of Kismayu.

On 15 August 2015 Madobe was re-elected by Jubaland parliament with 68 votes as President of Jubaland State.

On 15 May 2013, Madobe was elected president of Somalia's southern Jubaland region.

On 28 August 2013, Madobe signed a national reconciliation agreement in Addis Ababa with the Somali federal government. Endorsed by the federal State Minister for the Presidency Farah Abdulkadir on behalf of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the pact was brokered by the Foreign Ministry of Ethiopia and came after protracted bilateral talks.

He was later arrested by the Ethiopians. When the Somali parliament expanded to 550 MPs he was elected as an MP in January 2009 and released from the Ethiopian prison. On 4 April 2009 he announced his resignation from the parliament.

As a member of Islamic Courts Union (ICU) Madobe was governor of Jubaland, in 2006. When the ICU was overthrown by Ethiopian National Defense Force he fled towards the Kenyan border when he was wounded, and later received medical treatment at an Ethiopian hospital.