Sudan could face a counter coup if military rulers and the opposition do not rea...
KHARTOUM - Sudan could face a counter coup if military rulers and the opposition do not reach agreement on a handover of power to civilians, leading opposition figure and former prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi said on Thursday.
“For them to attempt a counter coup is most probable. All the time they are conspiring,” Mahdi, 83, said in an interview with Reuters at his sprawling villa surrounded by gardens in the capital Khartoum.Mahdi, who studied at Britain’s Oxford University, was himself overthrown in a bloodless coup by Bashir in 1989.
The spokesman for Sudan’s ruling Transitional Military Council said later on Thursday it would retain “sovereign authority only” while civilians hold the post of prime minister and head all government ministries. But they have insisted that, while they are willing to accept a civilian transitional government, ultimate authority will remain in their hands until elections are held up to two years from now.
“I was praying at home. Dawn prayers. And they surrounded my house,” he said of the 1989 coup which took him completely by surprise. “I think they wanted to kill me. To capture me and pretend I had tried to escape or resisted.” He refused. “They took me back to an execution cell.” For the next two years he was jailed and put under house arrest.
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