KHARTOUM, Sudan
Abel Fattah al-Burhan head of the military-led Sovereign Council rejected accusations of supporting the banned National Congress Party (NCP) and renewed his commitment to not participate in the transitional government.
Following the October 2021
coup, the ruling military authority reinstated NCP members to service, allowed
the party’s voluntary organizations to operate again and restored confiscated
assets and property to its leaders.
Also, fugitive NCP leaders
wanted by justice for their participation in the 1989 coup reappeared without a
warrant for her arrest.
Speaking to the crowd in the
Kadbas area of River Nile state, al-Burhan said he is optimistic that the
coming period will witness a breakthrough in the protracted political crisis
pointing out that everyone senses the dangers of the stalemate.
He further rejected
accusations that the armed forces were siding with Islamists and the
rehabilitation of their dissolved formerly ruling party in Sudan.
“Whoever claims that the armed
forces support the National Congress Party, we tell them you are liars. We
support the Sudanese people,” he said
“All that we hear is bidding,
deception and illusion of public opinion,” he added.
Al-Burhan statements intended
to clear up strong rumours in the capital Khartoum about a recent rift between
him and his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo aka Hemetti over al-Burhan’s decision
in favour of the Sudanese Islamists.
On October 9, Hemetti issued a
short statement denying any rift between him and al-Burhan.
The commander of the
paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has been blamed by the Sudanese Islamists for
not protecting their regime in April 2019 when the ousted President Omer
al-Bashir requested him to end protests.
Al-Burhan, on July 4,
announced the army withdrawal from the political process to form a new
transitional government.
In addition, he said they have
no intention to participate in the new government but to form a separate
military council for security and national defence with additional powers to be
discussed with the new government.
However, the political allies
of the military component from the former rebel groups reject any solution that
excludes the army and freeze any effort to move forward in the restoration of a
civilian transitional government.
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