AWEIL – Former Northern Bahr el Ghazal State Secretary General Garang Kuot Kuot has resigned from the Common People Alliance (CPA) and rejoined the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), four years after leaving the party.
Kuot, who was officially welcomed back at the SPLM state secretariat on Friday, said returning to the party was a necessary step.
“I am not a stranger to the SPLM. I joined when it was only four years old and remained until circumstances forced me out,” Kuot said at the ceremony.
He cited internal grievances as the reason for his departure in 2020 but emphasized his longstanding commitment to the party.
“I am a proud revolutionary and veteran member. I joined SPLM/A in 1987, walking for three months from my village to Ethiopia,” he said. “Many of those who left with me at that difficult time are no longer with us; they sacrificed their lives for our freedom.”
Kuot and other former members of the Red Army formed the National Democratic Alliance in 2022, later renamed the Common People Alliance. However, he said he and his colleagues saw the need to return to their political roots.
“We cannot abandon the mother party that we helped build and grew up in,” he said, adding that the SPLM had shaped their ideology and vision.
He called on state SPLM chairman Simon Ober Mawut to launch a mass mobilization campaign to attract new members.
SPLM members said Kuot’s return marked a significant political comeback for former party cadres.
