{"id":11017,"date":"2022-12-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=11017"},"modified":"2022-12-06T20:25:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T20:25:29","slug":"splm-threatens-to-sue-machar-over-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/07\/splm-threatens-to-sue-machar-over-name\/","title":{"rendered":"SPLM threatens to sue Machar over name<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By William Madouk Garang<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ruling party, Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM) has threatened legal suit against SPLM-IO led by Dr. Riek Machar if they refuse to relinquish the party\u2019s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SPLM first deputy Secretary-General for political affairs, Akol Paul Kordit said the acronym is an official name for SPLM party and anyone using it outside the system must desist or face full force of the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe political bureau welcomes the decision of other SPLM breakaway group to form their own parties \u2013 this is their democratic right. However, the PB urges these break away groups to relinquish the name call SPLM from their organization\u201d said Akol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stressed that SPLM is a certified political party registered under Political Party Act, asserting that \u201cthose in SPLM-IO who still call himself SPLM, it\u2019s totally wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kordit explained that when South Sudan gets its independence, it had no intention of leaving behind the name of Sudan to Arabs but in international laws splinter person has no right on historical name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026Many of us has strong feeling in the PB that Sudan should not be left with Mandukuros [Arabs] because Sudan in Arabic meaning Sud-ana \u2013 [which literally means black] but we concluded that in the international law the breakaway person has no right on the historical name, it remains with that person,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, when you breakaway \u2013 you actually abandon that system altogether \u2013 if the SPLM-IO and anyone else name him or herself SPLM outside this SPLM \u2013 [we] insist to take them to transitional court and apply the rule of law,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He sternly warned those who are still outside SPLM party that the \u2018door of unification\u2019 has closed and anyone who wants to apply must submit request seeking membership individually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Puok Both Baluang, the press secretary in the Office of Machar on Monday, said Machar was elected through the SPLM convention and would only be replaced by the same convention when the Arusha agreement is implemented and all factions become one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baluang argued that the business that the ruling party engaged in last week was a restructuring of \u201cSPLM-IG and not SPLM\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat has happened here in Juba days ago was not the NLC of the SPLM rather than the NLC of SPLM IG,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He maintained that the SPLM is still not yet restructured and any attempt to restructure the \u201chistorical party\u201d has to be in line with the Arusha Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baluang said that Machar is a signatory to the 2015 Arusha Agreement and cannot be replaced by \u201cIG\u201d as a faction of the SPLM Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey do not have authority to replace someone elected during the convention that is according to the SPLM constitution unless the IG is using their own constitution\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Baluang, the SPLM-IO, FDS, and Real SPLM were not parties to the convention that took place in Juba on Friday; hence the meeting lacked the spirit of the Arusha Agreement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By William Madouk Garang The ruling party, Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM) has threatened legal suit against SPLM-IO led by Dr. Riek Machar if they refuse to relinquish the party\u2019s name. The SPLM first deputy Secretary-General for political affairs, Akol Paul Kordit said the acronym is an official name for[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Dr.-Riek-Machar-Courtesy-photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11019,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions\/11019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}