FFC seek to re-establish partnership with Sudanese military: rival group
June 12, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – The military-allied National Consensus group on Sunday accused the Forces for Freedom and Change (Executive Council) of seeking to alien them and re-establish a partnership with the military component.
The peace signatory groups that backed the coup d’état held a press conference on Sunday to express their position on the U.S. Saudi brokered a meeting between the FFC and the military component on June 9.
“The FFC, Executive Council wants to return to power through an alliance with the military component, and secret meetings that have been held to implement it,” said National Consensus Deputy Secretary and Minnawi close aide Noraldaem Taha in a press conference on Sunday.
“We have paid millions of martyrs for a cause, and we will not allow any unelected group to control power alone in a diverse and multicultural country,” further said the Darfurian official.
The SLM-Minni Minnawi split from the FFC coalition in September 2019 and the Sudanese Revolutionary Front in May 2020. JEM of Gibril Ibrahim joined them in June 2021.
The two groups formed the National Consensus together with some small groups from eastern and central Sudan before supporting the military coup in October 2021.
Following the meeting with the military component, the FFC said they do not want to renew the civilian-military partnership and called to hand over power to a civilian government, stressing that they do not want to participate in it.
Speaking about the Trilateral Mechanism-facilitated process, Taha said that the direct dialogue has not yet begun.
The opening session held on Wednesday was a procedural meeting to determine the location and time of the dialogue and other technical procedures.
“We did not agree on the parties to the dialogue. Also, there is a difference over who is eligible to participate in the process,” he said.
The mechanism adjourned a meeting scheduled for Sunday, after the first direct meeting between the FFC and the military component at the Saudi embassy in Khartoum.