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The SPLM Democratic Change, a splinter movement form the ruling southern Sudan party, said today ready to work with independent candidates to rule the South.
SPLM-DC Secretary General paid on Saturday a visit to Khartoum’s suburb of Jebel Auliya, peopled with displaced from southern Sudan and Darfur, where he met with local chiefs from the Nuer, Fur, Zande, Balanda, Shilluk and Bari.
Charles B. Kisanga is one of the candidates of his party in the Sudanese capital for the National Assembly in the upcoming elections next April.
"The SPLM-DC is ready to work with independent candidates to form the new GoSS government" said Eng Kisanga who further stressed "the SPLM have failed to unite and now popular independent candidate are all over the Southern Sudan".
He also said that the SPLM Politburo is now "discredit as all their choices for candidates were for mostly corrupt individuals who had no backing of the people." Kisanga was referring to the SPLM members who run on different national and regional elections as independent candidates.
SPLM-DC, established in June last year, has filed a total of 660 candidates all over the Sudan. The SPLM-DC has also filed a total of 95 candidates for the Khartoum state.
Speaking to the well settled former displaced from southern Sudan, Kisanga blasted the SPLM failure to provide services in southern Sudan adding that some of those who returned to the South returned back to Khartoum again.
He further pledged to solve community problems for the people and improve their livelihood all over the Sudan.
The SPLM-DC leader Dr. Lam Akol is a candidate for the presidency of southern Sudan government against Salva Kiir Maydrit the incumbent president of the semi-autonomous region and Sudan’s First Vice President. His candidacy is backed by a number of southern Sudan opposition parties.
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