 Somalia's Jubiland Regional State Assembly has elected Ilyas Badal Gabose as a fourth member of Somalia's Senate as a more delayed post in the country officially kicked off in the southern port city of Kismayo. But Jubiland Regional Assembly is expected to vote for three more candidates today. Gabose is a former governor of Lower Jubil region and a close ally of Jubiland Regional State President Ahmed Mohamed Islam, also known as Ahmed Madobe. The seats of 54 Senate members are distributed among Somalia's regional administrations. Jubiland State has been allocated eight of those seats. The other regional administrations have not yet announced a date for the re-elections to the two houses of the federal parliament.