Juba, South Sudan
April 29, 2022 — The Acting Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Secretary-General, Peter Lam Both is calling on the party members in Warrap State to register and remain steady for the forthcoming general elections.
Peter Lam Both made this appeal in Bahr el Ghazal region while addressing the people at the Kuajok Freedom Square on Wednesday.
“You SPLM members in Warrap state need to work hard to mobilize and register many members because your secretary reported 459, 494 registered members which is very good but Warrap population is 1,432,986 according to National Bureau of Statistics 2020 projection and to pass election, you need to have 1,072,940 registered members of SPLM to win the election”, SPLM Secretary-General Both stressed.
He also called on political parties vying for the race in the upcoming elections to adhere to the same sequence as required by the principles of the revitalized peace agreement.
“On behalf of other political parties, I would like to ask them to do the same as we did in SPLM this is very important because others in Juba talked of no political space but we SPLM are ready for competition,” Both added.
He called on the SPLM leadership in the area to provide services to the people of Warrap state as enshrined in the SPLM manifesto.
“I urge you the SPLM members who got chances to be in executive, we were fighting for development, good roads, schools and health care as stipulated in the Manifesto,” he said.
For his part, the National Deputy SPLM Youth League Chairperson, Mr. Awar Ayar advised the youth to defend the party and its principles.
“I urge you the youth of SPLM and ordinary youth of Warrap state to defend the SPLM Party and protect the country as this is the role of the youth,” Awar Ayar.
“You need to support the party in the social media and respect the elders because we will assume their positions and will be bad if it is done to us.”, he added.
Ayar urged those with political ambitions to upgrade and build their capacities educationally.
Mary Apai, National Member of Liberation Council, advises women to work for the party and unite for peace in the state.
“It’s only the SPLM party who considers us with 35% for free and we the women have the bigger role in caring for children so we will stand with Salva Kiir and I want you, women, to unite because what makes men fight is the issue of money,” she said.
The September 2018 peace deal obligates the unity government to hold elections three months before the end of the transitional period to establish a democratically elected government.
In November last year, President Salva Kiir told the country that the much-anticipated general elections would take place as planned but First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny said there are perquisites conditions to be met first to ensure credible and transparent elections.
Since Independence South Sudan has never held elections.
The first general election was scheduled to take place in 2015 but was watered down by the internal crisis of the SPLM whose consequences affected the entire country.
