Signs of mental illness? What do you base that on? If he is clean a wrongfully abused in a plot to overthrow his chances of advancement to top position, is something nobody know. However, I find it hard to understand why someone would fight as much as him to get things out in the light? Never seen that before, and it would be very stupid if he was guilty.
We all know what party won the election, but the stronghold of power easily reversed that. We have seen many situation where uncomfortable persons get pushed away by made up stories, so this can very well be one of those. I am not posting he is innocent and squeaky clean, but instead pointing out the possibilities.
Writing like you have done Mr Spider, is very disturbing, as you have no back-up for it whatsoever. The only thing you have done, is to spout a lot of unconfirmed garbage.