NCP’s Ghandour voices support for al-Burhan coup, saying Sudan is now better
April 8, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – The former head of the National Congress Party, Ibrahim Ghandour, voiced his support for the October 25 coup and added that the situation is improving in the country now.
A Sudanese court on Thursday acquitted Ghandour and several Islamist leaders of the regime of ousted President Omer al-Bashir on trial for lack of evidence.
The complainant, the Military Intelligence Service, had accused them of undermining the constitutional order and financing terrorism.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV on Friday, Ghandour praised the integrity of the Sudanese judiciary illustrated by its decision to release him and other Islamists.
“Al-Burhan made a mistake when he signed an agreement with four political parties as representing the Sudanese revolution,” he said referring to the constitutional declaration signed with the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) in August 2019.
“Al-Burhan’s decisions of October 25, 2021, are not a coup. These decisions are a step in the corrective path,” Ghandour said.
According to the political leader of the former regime, the armed forces sided with the Sudanese street that was calling for a change in April 2019.
He said that the army’s decision to overthrow al-Bashir in support of the protesters was not the first time. He further mentioned the experience of April 1985 when the military established a separate transitional council and formed a transitional cabinet to prepare for elections.
Ghandour stressed that they will now challenge by all legal means the decision that dissolved and prohibited the NCP adding: “No one can block our freedom of association.”
He said that the situation in the country after the coup is improving.
“If you ask any Sudanese about the situation in Sudan following al-Burhan’s decisions on October 25th, he will say that things are improving despite the high prices, after the international decisions to suspend all the money that would have come to the public treasury,” he said.
The former foreign minister called on the international community to take into consideration what the people of Sudan and not some of them want, as he said.
He revealed that he is no longer the head of the party after his arrest.
“The party transferred the leadership to someone else,” he said.
(ST)