Obama got rid of his Democrat opponent when he was running for state office by discovering that she did not have enough legal signatures on her petition, something that had probably been going on forever in Chicago. He got rid of his Republican opponent in the senate race by getting the media to open his divorce records. Not saying that this case fits the mold, but I suspect there will be quite a bit of this kind of action against any candidate with reasonable expectations to nip the supreme leader in the next election.
Just look at the radical mindlessness of the governor’s disappearance and the uproar it caused as the state found out that it’s governor was missing and state security could not find him but had found the abandoned car, cell phone cut off etc., the governor self destructed in a very dramatic way displayed mental instability, this wasn’t Obama.