SPLM-IO factional leader Duer Tut Duer names deputy

JUBA – South Sudan main armed opposition politician who serves as the de facto leader of the holdout Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) faction, Duer Tut Duer, has issued a decree appointing a senior member of his loyalists circle as the deputy chairman his group.

Duer broke away from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny in June last year when he attempted to remove Machar as the chairman and commander in chief of the country’s most effective opposition group.

Though he appointed coordinators for the group in Sudan and Egypt, Duer hasn’t formed his executive office and several positions such as secretary-general and deputy chairman of the SPLM-IO’s holdout faction have remained vacant until this week when he took the decision to appoint a deputy for himself.

In a decree extended to Sudans Post, Duer appointed former SPLA-IO commander, General Mayom Chol Duot, as the deputy chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition under him, effective February 6, 2022, until when the group’s permanent organs are formed.

“In exercise of powers of the Interim Chairman of the SPLM-IO (the Reformists), I Duer Tut Duer Makuac, do hereby issue this Order for the appointment of Gen. Mayom Chol Duot as Interim Deputy Chairman of the SPLM-IO (the Reformists),” he said in an order extended to Sudans Post.

“The functions and powers of the Interim Deputy Chairman of the SPLM-IO (the Reformists) take effect on the 6^th of February 2022 and terminate immediately after the formation and establishment of the permanent organs and structures of the Movement,” he added.