Sudan’s Gosh may be expelled from NCP’s leadership: official
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May 2, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – A former adviser to Sudanese president Omer
Hassan Al-Bashir who was relieved of his duties last week may soon see
himself booted out of the National Congress Party (NCP) leadership
role, an official was quoted as saying.
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Salah Gosh, former special security adviser to President Omer Hassan
Al-Bashir (Reuters)
Salah Gosh, who was considered a powerful figure within the state and
the ruling party, was abruptly sacked by Bashir from his position as
presidential adviser for security affairs. No reason was given for the
decision.
This follows his surprise removal in 2009 by the Sudanese president
from the directorship of the National Intelligence and Security
Services (NISS).
Qutbi Al-Mahdi, the head of the organizations bureau at the NCP, told
local media that he expects a new decision to be made soon that would
also strip Gosh of all his titles within the party which included
presiding over the NCP’s workers’ secretariat.
He added that Gosh’s status within the NCP would be re-evaluated but
fell short of saying that his party membership would be revoked.
The former adviser holds a parliamentary seat as a representative of
the Merowe constituency.
Statements by Al-Mahdi are the clearest indication to date over the
gravity of reasons leading to demise of Gosh’s status within the
government and the ruling party.
Government officials and NCP figures have avoided offering details of
why Gosh was forced out from Bashir’s inner circle except to say that
this was due to "internal reasons" but denied it was an indication of
rift within Bashir’s party.
A few days before his dismissal, Gosh and powerful presidential
assistant Nafie Ali Nafie clashed over the media on the dialogue with
opposition parties.
Nafie , who is the NCP deputy chairman, criticized in a radio
interview the dialogue conducted by Gosh’s Presidential Security
Advisory (PSA) with opposition parties, and said it was not sanctioned
by the NCP’s leadership, prompting Gosh to retort a day later with
assertions that his dialogue enjoys approval by Bashir and his
Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha.
Some observers in Khartoum have speculated that Gosh was planning a
coup against Bashir with the consent of the US administration while
others linked his removal to an Israeli strike carried out in East
Sudan against suspects arms smugglers in early April. The government
claimed that Israel had informants on the ground who provided the
intel to carry out the operation.
The Islamist opposition leader Hassan Al-Turabi who was just released
from a 4-month detention today, suggested that Gosh was involved in a
power struggle.
"The tyrant does not allow anyone to share power with him but he
forgives the mischief. He who was sacked aspired for power, economic
and political power and was fired the first time [as a result]. The
second [time] he tried to cling to power and money and reinforce his
position so he was fired," Turabi said.
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