Families Occupy NUP Headquarters in Omdurman on Pretext of Its Support for RSF militia

The division within the National Umma Party (NUP) has escalated, amid reports that families have seized the party headquarters in Omdurman on the pretext of the party’s support for the Rapid Support Forces (RSFl militia.

The visit of Abdul-Rahman Al-Sadig Al-Mahdi, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Elders of the Ansar Affairs Authority—the religious arm of the Umma Party—to the NUP headquarters, accompanied by Maj. Gen. Nasreddin Abdel-Fattah, Commander of the Armored Corps of the Army, sparked internal disputes within the party.

Abdul-Rahman Al-Mahdi, the eldest son of the late party leader Al-Sadig Al-Mahdi and a lieutenant general in the army, issued a statement about the circumstances of his visit to the party headquarters, confirming that “some families occupied the building and refused to leave under the pretext of the party’s support for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia.”

Abdul-Rahman added that, in his capacity as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Al-Siddigiah Company, which owns and leases the building to the National Umma Party, he went to persuade those he called the occupiers to leave and resolve the issue peacefully.

He pointed out that the occupiers had previously refused to cooperate with the committee formed by the party’s acting chairman, Mohamed Abdullah Al-Doma, which forced him to coordinate with the committee to visit the headquarters, accompanied by the armed forces’ Omdurman control official, to confirm the correct legal position, he said.

The eldest son of Al-Sadig Al-Mahdi stated that he “made it clear to the occupiers that those supporting the militia are leaderships isolated from the party’s constituents and the Sudanese people, and that the majority of the party’s constituents in the capital and the states, as well as the party’s institutions and leaders in the overwhelming majority of the states, condemn the militia’s aggression, and they fully understood this.”

He criticized the party’s secretariat for limiting itself to the role of commentators on events and completely evacuating the party’s internal arena.

In a statement on Friday, the Secretary-General of the National Umma Party, Al-Wathiq Al-Bureir, harshly criticized Abdel-Rahman Al-Mahdi’s visit to the NUP headquarters.

For his part, the acting Head of the National Umma Party, Mohamed Abdullah Al-Doma, issued a statement on Friday in which he said that a committee headed by Salah Mohamed Daoud, Assistant Secretary-General for General Secretariat Affairs and former director of the headquarters, had been assigned to follow up on the procedures for its reclaiming and evacuating its residents.