NCP South Sudan office closes down as officials join SPLM
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July 8, 2011 (JUBA) – The offices of the North Sudan’s ruling National
Congress Party (NCP) in South Sudan officially closed on Thursday as
senior officials of the party declared their collective defection to
the South Sudan’s ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) two
days before the independence.
Dozens of senior members of the NCP including Riek Gai Kok, the most
senior advisor to President Omer Al Bashir, and a number of current
ministers and former ministers of the Government of Southern Sudan
(GoSS) on Thursday declared their defection to the SPLM.
In a press conference hosted in Juba on Thursday by the minister of
Information Barnaba Marial Benjamin and attended by several local and
international media houses, Riek Gai Kok, who led the collective
defection of the NCP officials in the ten states told the press that
the timing was ripe to rejoin "my party" the SPLM.
Bashir’s advisor since 2005 who is also former President of the
Southern Sudan Coordinating Council (SSCC) told the press he was very
happy that he and his people of South Sudan finally voted for
independence of the region.
He further explained he felt proud and happy that it was the
implementation of the objective of the right of self-determination
which he said he helped in championing from 1990s in the SPLM and
signed in the Khartoum Peace Agreement (KPA) in 1997 that has now
brought the freedom and independence of the people of South Sudan.
When asked why he decided to defect to the SPLM at this time, Gai
responded that he was only rejoining his party, the SPLM, after
achieving this right of self-determination, a remark received with
ululations and hand claps by the audience.
He said it was not only him and other senior officials sitting with
him in the press conference in Juba that have joined the SPLM but also
similar events were simultaneously taking place in all the ten states
on the same day. Gai said press conferences were being held in the ten
states during which NCP offices were being closed down and
declarations to join the SPLM were being made.
Riek Gai called on the people of South Sudan to rally behind the
leadership of Salva Kiir Mayardit, the first president of the Republic
of South Sudan (RoSS) from Saturday, July 9, for the next four years
of transition.
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