Sudan’s ruling party says opposition failed to carry out uprising
June 26, 2016 (KHARTOUM) – A leading member in the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) Nafie Ali Nafie has resumed verbal attacks on the opposition groups, saying all their attempts to lead a popular uprising “intifada” have failed.
Speaking to leadership members of the NCP National Youth Union in a Ramadan breakfast he hosted at his home Sunday, he said that a number of opposition leaders including Sadiq al-Mahdi of the National Umma Party (NUP) believe that the resolutions and sanctions by the UN security council could weaken and scare the” Salvation Revolution”.
“But we believe it will make us stronger. We have beaten them at the Security Council and the Human Rights Council. They issued a million decisions that did not affect us at all and they are all under our shoes,” he added.
Nafie went further to say ” All the attempts that had been made to lead an uprising have failed”, underscoring that the opposition figures and those who stand behind them realize that they have no public support.
“If they (the opponents) have been gathered, they will not fill my house,” he said sarcastically.
Nafie has affirmed that “Sudan has resisted the unfair international sanctions and the continuous embargo from the West”. Nobody expected we would stand firm under the military pressures, embargo and enmity of a number of countries, but we managed to withstand..What happened during the time of the siege is unprecedented”.
“Before the coming of the “Salvation Revolution” there were economic crisis and food scarcity but the situation is completely different now as everything is available”, he said.
He said that the “Salvation Revolution” has brought about a quantum leap so that Sudan has become stronger and feared.
“They expected the collapse of the regime but their assumptions dashed” he added.
Observers in Khartoum say NCP leaders during the past 25 years used to explain the economic failure by the international sanctions and political isolation of the regime.
Nafie and his rival Ali Osman Taha, the former First Vice-President had to quit their positions in a bid to carry out reforms and bring news faces to leading positions. However, the former still tries to have a public presence and political activities.
(ST)