Jamac Deperani is a great journalist, his interviews are very informative.
In my opinion 9 people are too many for an elections commission, but that is not the main problem.
The main problem is that the elections for president should be separate from those for parliament. Puntland simply does not have the capacity to hold both elections simultaneously. Have them spaced out over two years, with the presidential contest coming first. The EU already withdrew their democratization funding last year, so there will be no outside help.