South Darfur governor sacks all ruling party officials

The governor of South Darfur state dismissed all National Congress Party officials on Sunday. Governor Maj. Gen. Adam Mahmoud Jarelnabi on Sunday issued an order of dismissal for all South Darfur state Ministers, advisors, Commissioners, heads of government offices, secretaries, and technical experts, belonging to the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). The governor, in his function as head of NCP’s South Darfur branch, also removed the trustees of the NCP secretariats and heads of the NCP sectors from their functions in South Darfur. He commissioned the General Managers of the ministries, and General Secretaries of commissions to take over the state’s administration. In an address to an NCP general convention in Nyala, capital of South Darfur state, last week, Ibrahim Ghandour, Presidential Assistant and Deputy-President of the NCP, called on party leaders not to select their representatives on tribal bases. He denounced the functioning of the NCP in the state, claiming that “the loyalty of its membership is based on tribal affiliations”. Governor Jarelnabi failed to win the party’s nomination for governor for the upcoming 2015 elections.  He was defeated by Eisa Adam Abakar, South Darfur state’s Minister of Urban Planning, who scored 139 votes, while Jarelnabi came second with 68 votes. File photo: Governor Maj. Gen. Adam Mahmoud Jarelnabi (Suna) Related:Musa Hilal’s council: ‘Postpone Sudan elections’ (26 September 2014) Tribal leader urges Sudan authorities to restore rule of law (25 September 2014) ‘Government has tribalised Sudan’: Darfur Civil Society Platform (23 September 2014) Ruling party official killed in South Darfur ambush (22 September 2014)