May 8, 2020 (JUBA) - The South Sudan Opposition Alliance n Friday called on the SPLM-IO to accept the allocation of state governors stressed that the presidency observed the decision-making process provided in the peace agreement.

Josephine Lagu Yanga (ST photo) On Thursday, the SPLM-IO leader rejected the allocation of state governors in a meeting chaired of the collegial presidency chaired by President Salva Kiir because it allocated the Upper Nile State a stronghold of the SPLM-IO to SSOA.

In a letter to Augustino Nioroge, head of the peace implementation monitoring body RJMEC, FVP Riek Machar pointed out that the decision ignored the prominence of the parties and was not taken by consensus.

In response, the alliance issued a press statement saying that the revitalized peace agreement provides that the decision making in the presidency requires collegial collaboration.

"Hence, the resolution that was issued yesterday by the Presidency is in accordance with sub-article 1.9.6.1.2 The president, the First Vice President, and the Vice Presidents shall seek to reach an agreement on matters of executive administration and failure to which by agreement of at least (04) of them".

"The decision of yesterday was by 5 against 1 which in our view is democratic in nature and therefore binding on all in the Presidency as an institution," stressed the SSOA.

With regard to the prominence of each Party has in each of the respective State, the SSOA said their alliance is the only neutral party that can unite the communities in Upper Nile and ensure peace and stability in South Sudan.

"Furthermore, SPLM/IO should understand that the state that falls under their authority will be governed as a part of the country and not as independent or autonomous states," said the statement.

Machar in his letter urged the intervention of RJMEC chair stressing that the decision violated the peace agreement in several areas.

In addition to the prominence, he pointed out that the OPP, another small coalition did not get a state as provided in the rule of power-sharing defined in the peace agreement.

In its statement, the SSOA spoke about the spirit of compromise by OPP pointing it enabled the SPLM-IG to have six states, as it demanded.

"This was in line with the proposal of RJMEC Interim Chair proposing that OPP forgo its gubernatorial seat in exchange with senior positions in the state governments," said the statement.

It further disclosed that the SPLM-IG compensated OPP with two deputy governor positions and others.

(ST)

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9 May 06:08, by choldit

Another puppet in the mess of this evilness act of President just because SSOA got what it wants. Why don’t you tell South Sudanese IO was wrong in the points SPLM IO addressed in its rejection letter to president’s states allocation. You are bunches of puppets to president’s IG.
9 May 07:06, by Games

People should ignore theirs nonsenses. They only beneficiers, which they are already parcels of Salva Kiir’s party.
- 9 May 08:48, by South South
  
  Games,
  South Sudan is happy with allocation of the states except Reik and his family. Majority of IO generals defected to our government. Reid alone and his family will last long. Poor Dr. Wanted will surrender soon.
  - 9 May 12:36, by Langbaar
    
    The traitor thinks, the whole show would be like when his foreign masters were keeping him and allies hostage in foreign capitals, hotels, brothels and bars as their bargaining chips and blackmails over South Sudan and the South Sudanese people. But the creep doesn’t know that there are some limits to treason. In fact, the traitors deserve non.>>>
    - 9 May 12:42, by Langbaar
      
      The kind of democracy being experimented here in South Sudan doesn’t exist anywhere on this planet. It’s either you are in a damn oppositions or in the government, it is the way it always is and will always will. But there are low lives who think, they can experiment their so-called unworkable kind democracy where the opposition can share power with oppositions.>>>>
      - 9 May 12:46, by Langbaar
        
        the level of hatred and racism these traitors andf evil from the US, the UK, their UN and their sleazy NGOs have created in our country and among our people has gone pretty much deep into our blood and the evils are going to pay a heavy prize, with their traitors and puppets/stooges. The evils in the US, their English people, their evil juus (so-called israelis), their creeps here in AU,>>>>
        
        9 May 12:52, by Langbaar
        
        their sleazy NGOs, the UN and the IGAD love affair with our country and our people has gone too far. The empty headed cow-boy hat wearer and bunch of lowly informed are the ones who let the traitor, his bunch of goons and their foreign masters play game with our country and our people ever since. South Sudan is not a part of the damned so-called ANGLO-AMERICA empire, never has and will never ever>
        
        9 May 12:56, by Langbaar
        
        will under the sun and even in million years, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM. We have been informing our lowly informed fools that the evils from the US, the UK, their evil juus (so-called israelis), their UN, their sleazy NGOs, their creeps here in the IGAD and some of their creeps who covet our country and our people have ’attached themselves to our people’ like ’leeches or ticks’ and they>>>>
        
        9 May 13:02, by Langbaar
        
        even pray that there cannot be their so-called empire without our country and our people. That whoever owns our Nile, their cloned so-called Arab North Sudan, Egypt and our country owns Africa. The whole dirty project behind the scene being over our country and over our people is a Geopolitical intrigues. That our country and our people would be always ’chess game or football played like then>>>>
        
        9 May 13:09, by Langbaar
        
        DR Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Central Africa republic (C.A.R), some of their creeps West Africa, Caribbeans countries, Cuba, Middle Eastern countries, some of their Asian countries, Eastern European countries or Latin American countries during their so-called COLD WAR. And the vermin hope, that South Sudan would be ’reunited like then ’East and West Germany’ and then the vermin would then run>>>>
        
        9 May 13:14, by Langbaar
        
        to capitals and write their propagandized books that their so-called *capitalism’ has triumphs over their so-called ’communism and socialism’. Lowly informed South Sudanese fools. Let us just round up anything that is connected to *evil white Americans, English people, the UN, their sleazy NGOs, UNIMISS, their cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan, Abeshas (so-called ethiopians),>>>>
        
        9 May 13:23, by Langbaar
        
        and some of their Bantuses, kill the vermin and throw the vermin into the Nile and be done with them. The vermin have ’sabotaged our country and our people’. There is this nonsense being propagated by the globalists of *Paul Kagame, Thabo Mbeki, former Tanzanian president, Jakaya Kikwete, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga, Abiye Ahmed,
        Hailemariam Desalegn>>>>
        
        9 May 13:28, by Langbaar
        
        Olusugan Obasonjo, Barack Hussein Obama, Susan Rice, Riek Machar, Yasir Armin, Malik Agar, Ban Ki Moon and other bunch of ’secret societies and evils who have sold their souls and themselves to the devils and they are desperate to sell others and their countries to the devils like they had done* For those of us who ahead of this dirty game being played over our country and over our people>>>>
        
        9 May 13:36, by Langbaar
        
        we are followed 24/7. These are the facts fools. That from *Jerusalem to Tigris river, to Euphrates river and right up our Nilotic plains and valleys, the evil juus (so-called israel)* would expand to, good luck to the vermin----dreaming is not a crime. And that this so-called evil juus (so-called israelis) empire would be ushered in by the their so-called most *powerful sovereigns*>>>>
        
        9 May 13:41, by Langbaar
        
        of *the US, the UK, France and their so-called evil juus (so-called israel)* and that their evil juus (so-called israel) would be financed by their *gulf Arab states’ client states, their evil juus (so-called israelis) in the Wall Streets and some of their creeps in Europe who have stashed away their loots in offshore countries of UAE, Kenya, Abesh (so-called ethiopia), South Africa, London,>>>
        
        9 May 13:48, by Langbaar
        
        Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Panama, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other tax avoidance havens fools. These vermin think,, that South Sudan and democratic republic of Congo and other countries with resources would be used to prop up the would be @set up "manufuctruiring hubs in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Abesh (so-called ethiopia), North Sudan, Ghana or Nigeria*>>>
        
        9 May 13:56, by Langbaar
        
        And the whole cheap and dirty intrigue behind all these was to *stem the follow of West African low lives, Drafuris, Eritreans, Abeshas (so-called ethiopians),Somalians, South Sudanese (if at all there are any, from going to Libya to cross the Mediterranean sea to Italy, Spain and to other European countries or another losers in their so-called sub Saharan Africa from going to those countries>>>>
        
        9 May 14:06, by Langbaar
        
        or to stem *the West African low lives, Darfuris, Eritreans, Abeshas (so-called ethiopians),Somalians, South Sudanese (if at all there are any, from crossing the Red sea to Saudi Arabia, evil juus (so-called israel and other bunch bunch of their gulf Arabs states client states to go and cause problems there*>>> Lowly informed South Sudanese fools. There is no oil in Saudi Arabia, the vermin>>>>
        
        9 May 14:28, by Langbaar
        
        even proposed that they would drill our oil from ’Upper Nile underneath the RED SEA to their facilities in Saudi Arabia’. Good luck to the vermin, this will be the end of their *evil empire fellows’ the VERMIN HAVE STEP ON WRONG PEOPLE FEET----us, the Dinkas/Muonyjiengs of the Sudan fellows>>>>>
        
        9 May 14:36, by Langbaar
        
        ’Our Jesh EL Amer’ sang this song that "muonyjang chol ace be ne kuany chok, ace ke kon rot ber nyok" That a blackman (Muonyjang boy) cannot be followed again by our enemies. Well, our foolish elders have let our country and our people be followed by ’arch enemies’. Fellows, living on other people is not a good idea and will never ever be a good idea.>>>>
- 9 May 14:31, by Games
  
  All the best for the formation of your new government May 12-20. We IO are not part of it.
  - 9 May 14:49, by South South
    
    Games,
    
    Go to the hell, who care about your participation. It’s there take it or leave it and shut up.
    - 9 May 15:39, by Games
      
      South South
      South South
      You have said that in many different occasions and always comes back to your vomited. New government without IO is a suicidal. Our chairman already gave us a greenlight of not to associate ourselves with that evil notion behind the states allocated.i pray and hope that you idiots will go head with your plans as usual
      - 9 May 17:07, by South South
        
        Games,
        
        You wicked, coward and stupid, shut up. What did Riek win since 2013? He was vice president in 2013. He is still vice president in 2020. Tell us which city in South Sudan IO is holding right now? Zero. Riek and his family are just shit.
9 May 15:05, by choldit

Let wait and see how those state govts will be formed based on that devilishly allocated states. The SPLM Io leadership initially shouldn’t trust that regime and renegotiate parts of agreement. Every step should be done by the book. Salva kiir and JCE are NOT TRUSTWORTHY!!!
9 May 18:44, by Mayendit

Choldit.
Your uncle Riek Machar is telling some of his friends that, he is failing all time because of Nuers behaviors adding that, the Dinka couldn’t trust my tribe Nuers he said but now when you see appointment then, one can say he has a problem too.
- 11 May 01:40, by choldit
  
  Let wait and see what the defection will do. Dr. Machar have never, is not and will never be a problem to this nation, South Sudan. He is the reason why we have a sovereign state call South Sudan. All he is doing is to get it a sound democratic nation. There is nothing wrong with SPLM IO under Dr Machar, believe me dude!

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