Editorial: from southsudannation.comWhy Salva Kiir should not run for President of Sudan in 2009Quote: ..."the declared objective of a united Sudan is at variance with the will and aspirations of many of its members who still believed that South Sudan must secede from the North. ....few people in the SPLA/M believe in the unity of the country (Sudan)"...Dr. Peter NyabaBy declaring its intention to nominate Mr. Salva Kiir Mayardit for President of Sudan in the 2009 National Elections, the SPLM has taken a cataclysmic quantum leap into the unknown political darkness.As southerners, we’re perplexedly baffled as to whether those so-called party leaders had studiously and wisely enumerated and analyzed the impeding implications and complications of their hasty decision to nominate their party leader for the top post in the country.In all fairness, it isn’t that a southerner, at this moment in time of our history, can’t become President of Sudan in Khartoum. The problem is: this isn’t the right moment or the right person.For the last four years, with the appalling record of the SPLM in the political leadership in the South where the promised peace dividends haven’t been realized, a pervasive corruption spirally out of control, nepotism and sporadic insecurity, one wonders what the motivation is that's driving the SPLM to even dream of the presidency.As one member in the Sudanese 3-men presidency, Kiir's tenure has been severely emasculated and his apparent calamity doesn’t evoke any applauses or song singing by the silent majority of the southerners or even by the other marginalized “comrades.”Let it be stated clearly from the onset that despite all the political rhetoric emanating from the SPLM leadership council, the overwhelming majority of the southerners demand and want to vote for total secession and not for unity of Sudan.Specifically, in spite of his political nebulosity, Kiir himself last year, while addressing the faithful at Kator Cathedral, declared that the “secession supporters in the south outnumber the Unity supporters.”He then added: “We’ve two options, either to stay within a united Sudan as second-class citizens or head forward to form our own independent state.”Now, assuming that Kiir is elected President, and given the short time left before the 2011 Referendum on Self-determination, the south will inevitably be thrust into a political state of suspense and confusion. With their own man as president in Khartoum mandated to champion for unity, southerners will be greatly confused as to what they can rightfully vote for.This issue of unity or separation is the most outstanding in any likelihood of Kiir's presidency which is compounded by the palpable absence of a clear policy.One senior SPLM official recently remarked that “if we win the elections and a southerner becomes the national president, we’d no longer have a reason to leave.”Therefore, standing for and perhaps winning the presidency at this juncture in our history is all but a trap, a Trojan horse, which could definitely scuttle and fatally kill our march as southerners toward independence and separate statehood.Clearly, Dr. Garang’s controversial doctrine of “New Sudan” isn’t sacrosanct and it was invariably misunderstood and confusing to many “comrades” in the war fronts and those at home or Diaspora, even to this day.If anything, that doctrine has served its usefulness during the conduct of the war. We in the south must look forward to a lasting solution and resolution of the cyclical plagues of war after war.Sudan’s perennial problems can only be resolved by “Balkanization,” several separate entities must emerge to curtail the domination of the central elitist regimes in Khartoum and put a final end to the marginalization we’ve been fighting against for decades.Given the CPA current and inherent shortcomings, a Kiir’s presidency will unquestionably face gargantuan problems in its unfettered implementation. Now, with a dominant SPLM government and a minority Jellaba Arab NCP partner, certain articles and even protocols might have to be revised, altered or totally overhauled, to fit the new dispensation.Finally, with the indictment of Jellaba Arab President Al Bashir, politics in Sudan have been thrown into new dynamics. If Kiir became president, he must imperatively seek and facilitate the arrest and transfer of Al Bashir and others already accused or pending, to the ICC in The Hague.The Darfur people in their present ecstatic mood may definitely support Kiir on the hope that he’ll incarcerate their murderer. They’re in for a big disappointment as Kiir is generally renowned for flip-flopping on crucial decision making as a leader. Similar disappointments eerily await others in the Nuba Mts. and Eastern Sudan.Finally, as president, Kiir will have to move battalions of SPLA soldiers to Khartoum to ensure his longevity and security, typical of any African leader, and especially in a “failed” state like Sudan.What big price will the innocent, always the “second-class” citizens pay for such a worthless title? Editor Comment...Click Here=//=
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