British authorities were attempting to make the new council consist of many of their own and the SNL demanded a 100% Somali council free of colonial officers.[5] in 1959 Sultan Abdillahi sent a letter stating he was representative of the majority in British Somaliland to the nascent legislative assembly in Trust Territory of Somaliland, calling upon them to facilitate union and work for joint independence by 1960. Aden Adde the future first President of Somalia and current President of the assembly at the time responded to the Sultan.[6]