The VP has one eye on Mugadishu and one eye on Puntland and since he is not cross eyed, he is out. He is not a threat to any of the candidates, they all know this and are not going to risk with him.
It's all about the money this tells you that Somalia is under trusteeship pure under au troops. If they oppose the so called western backed gov't in villa Amisom. Having said that the cheese man has failed to build a securiy apparatus in almost 2 years. He will leave office and the bombs will continue to go off.