South Darfur governor sacks ministers after failing to win party nomination

September 28, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – The South Darfur governor and head of the National Congress Party (NCP) has relieved all ministers from the ruling party in his cabinet after failing to win the party nomination for the next year’s election.

Governor Adam Mahmoud Jar Elnabi was defeated in the NCP convention in South Darfur last week. A tribal coalition including party’s members from Bani Hilba, Habalah and Ta’isha elected Issa Adam Abakar as the NCP candidate for governor of South Darfur.

On Sunday, Jar Elnabi on Sunday issued a decision relieving all the members of his cabinet and entrusted the under secretaries with managing their ministries’ affairs.

Following the end of the convention, the governor ,who belongs to the Habania tribe, accused the party members of forming tribal blocs, adding that tribal alliances distorted the outcome of the party’s election, calling for decisive decisions to curb what he called “diseases of the party”.

In a speech delivered last Friday at Alsalam mosque in Nyala, Jar El Nabi reiterated his rejection to tribal feuds, saying it affects social cohesion within the state and promotes division and conflict.

Last week in his remarks to the party’s convention in Nyala, presidential assistant and NCP deputy leader Ibrahim Ghandour regretted tribal frictions, saying he had never saw such tribalism similar to what he witnessed in South Darfur and called to reject “tribal diseases”.

The ruling party is holding regional conventions in the different states before the national convention which will take place in Khartoum next October to nominate the party’s candidate for president.

President Omer al-Bashir on Saturday again said resolved to hold general elections as scheduled in 2015 and rejected calls by opposition forces to postpone it and to form a transitional government to implement the outcome of national dialogue.

(ST)