Machar’s internal rival Duer Tut ‘lost’ National Liberation Council membership – official

JUBA – Former SPLM-IO governor of the defunct opposition Sobat state has lost his membership of the main armed opposition group’s National Liberation Council (NLC), according to a senior opposition official close to Machar.

Dut Majokdit, a member of SPLM-IO in Northern Bahr el Ghazal and a peace delegate of the group in Juba told Sudans Post in an interview on Sunday that Duer shouldn’t continue to advocate for change of leadership because he has lost his membership of the SPLM-IO’s top decision maker.

“You are aware very well that Duer qualified for membership of the National Liberation Council because of his position when he was a governor of the defunct Sobat state,” Majokdit said on phone from Juba.

“Now, he is not a governor and his constituency has opted for a different person to represent them in the National Liberation Council and that is why he should go silent because he has no any importance in the decision making of the movement,” he added.

The senior opposition official further denounced what he said are false claims from Duer of Machar being a dictator and for the ‘premature’ return to Juba which has been criticized by many including Duer, saying Machar returned to Juba for the sack of peace and “does not want the suffering of the people of South Sudan to continue.”

“It is Duer who is not for peace and who is inking a bad image on a paper for the people to see the SPLM-IO and the chairman in a way that suit his interest. So, we know all what Duer has been doing with his followers, now they are out of the NLC because they have been making headlines of recent for him being a member of the NLC, that thing is no more.”

Majokdit further urged the “people of South Sudan to remain calm on the recent clashes in Moroto because the parties are working to resolve these issue so similar attacks or violations of the R-ARCSS are avoided.”