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Sudan president Al-Bashir intervenes to salvage dispute between his aides

April 25, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has personally intervened to defuse an unfolding crisis between two of his close aides as officials from his ruling National Congress Party (NCP) raced to downplay the discord as caused merely by conflict of mandates.

Sudan’s Security Presidential Adviser Salah Gosh (L), and Presidential Assistant Nafi Ali Nafi (R) during peace talks with Darfur rebels in the Libyan town of Sirte in 2007 (UNMIS)
Sudan’s Security Presidential Adviser Salah Gosh (L), and Presidential Assistant Nafi Ali Nafi (R) during peace talks with Darfur rebels in the Libyan town of Sirte in 2007 (UNMIS)
Presidential adviser Salah Gosh, who currently chairs the Presidential Security Advisory (PSA), publicly criticized Presidential Assistant and NCP’s Vice President Nafi Ali Nafi after the latter said in a radio interview with Sudan Radio on Friday that the dialogue led by Gosh’s PSA with certain political parties was not sanctioned by the NCP’s leadership.

Nafi went on to stress that his party would not engage in a dialogue whose end result would be to weaken his party’s grip on power.

But Gosh said in a press conference a day later on Saturday that Nafi’s statement represents only him, and that his dialogue enjoys approval by President Al-Bashir and Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha.

Gosh went on to stress that no one had the right to interfere in his job as long as he is mandated by President Al-Bashir, and that the PSA dialogue would only stop at the behest of Al-Bashir.

“It is [Nafi’s statement] detrimental to the dialogue and will make opposition parties run away from it,” Gosh said.

The Gosh-Nafi crisis, as it has become to be known, comes at a time when the NCP is officially engaged in dialogue with mainstream opposition parties, namely the National Umma Party (NUP) and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), as tension continues to dominate the domestic political arena amid worsening economic conditions and a sense of loss following the secession of South Sudan in a referendum held in January.

According to a report published on Monday by the privately-owned Sudanese daily newspaper Al-Tayyar, Al-Bashir convened a meeting on Sunday evening between Nafi and Gosh.

However, the paper reported that its sources could not confirm the outcome of the meeting.

Meanwhile, other NCP officials were quick to dismiss the Nafi-Gosh crisis as a natural matter, citing conflict of mandates as its reason.

“Human genius stipulates that levels of authorities must be separated so each authority can function within the mandate given to it, this may look to others as a disagreement,” NCP’s senior member and media minister Kamal Obayd said on Monday. “This is the kind of disagreement that leads to goodness, not to misery,” he added.

The NCP’s leading female member Samia Mohamed Ahmad told reports on Monday that although her party had an independent mechanism for dialogue with opposition parties, the president also had the right to task advisory bodies with the same duty.

However, she suggested that the name PSA does not befit the role it is playing. “It would better to re-name it a political advisory rather than security advisory” Samia said.

It is to be noted that Salah Gosh said in previous statements that one of the major obstacles facing the PSA’s operation was the wrong understanding of its mandate and the perception that it stealthily represents the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), over which he presided until he was relieved from his position in August 2009.

(ST)

7 Comments

  • Demarjack
    Demarjack

    Sudan president Al-Bashir intervenes to salvage dispute between his aides
    Hey Guys, some things is happening now and soon will do apart in what so called NCP under the leadership of current President of Northern Sudan.

    Oh God remove them from the power and have mercy on your people; coz you have seen and hard the cry of innocence people of the northern Sudan.

    Long Live people of faith in action.

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  • Angelo Ajiech Manyuat
    Angelo Ajiech Manyuat

    Sudan president Al-Bashir intervenes to salvage dispute between his aides
    The NCP will never share power peacefully with other oppositions as long as Ali Nafi still Bashir’s advisor. To hell with Nafi & his alikes

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  • Sudani Logik
    Sudani Logik

    Sudan president Al-Bashir intervenes to salvage dispute between his aides
    Who cares, you are all a bunch of criminal lunatics pretending to be a legitimate government.

    Go play with your toys in private boys, don’t forget to take Mohammed Ali, Jalaby and Sam.Eto with you.

    Pathetic fools.

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  • Madina Kebir
    Madina Kebir

    Sudan president Al-Bashir intervenes to salvage dispute between his aides
    Take it easy things are coming to the point very soon.If you don’t distance yourself from Omar al Bashir then, you will face same problems as the Libyan leader is facing now.

    Omar al Bashir is thinking the ICC case maybe gone unfortunately, it will never go away until he surrender to the Judges of the International body. Whoever seem to be close to president Omar al Bashir is also going to very close to indictment for sure.

    There is no doubt in my mind that, president Bashir is in the line after Libyan president Mummar or maybe sooner rather than later.

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  • Deng E. Manyuon
    Deng E. Manyuon

    Sudan president Al-Bashir intervenes to salvage dispute between his aides
    If the master minded of the 1989 coup Dr Abdulla Hassan Al-Turabi could be sacked from the party in 1990s, why not Salah Gosh! I am 100% sure that Nafi Ali Nafi himself is next on the line too. This tells us that the NCP has no concrete vision to govern the North. They don’t know what they are doing! They are running out of fresh ideas. People of the North don’t know who is who ….and who is mandated to do and not to do what? ? ? What a mess???

    Omar Hassan Al-Bashir has an habit of sackig and dismissing his gangs. He does not reason at all. That is the quality of leadership he has ! ! !

    Deng

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  • Murle Intellectual
    Murle Intellectual

    Sudan president Al-Bashir intervenes to salvage dispute between his aides
    da rajul magroor ya. Salah Gosh da. Let him go to Hell

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  • Martin Muong
    Martin Muong

    Sudan president Al-Bashir intervenes to salvage dispute between his aides
    Omar has not started his dictatorship yet.Don’t be surprise about dismissal of Presidential adviser Salah Gosh. So what you guys expecting from someone who came to power through military coupe?. Northern Sudanese polticians will never enjoy their political role unless Omar Hassan Al-bashir step down. Now what is the reason of firing Salah?. Omar should be worrying about accussations of committing war crime against humanity. Let him escalaing the situation but he will be the next of Alqaeda leader Osama Bin laden.

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