Garang’s son dismisses another resignation letter as fake, laments ‘NPTC regime’s work’ for forgery  

JUBA – South Sudan’s former minister of water resources & irrigation and senior member of the main armed opposition SPLM-IO Mabior Garang De Mabior has dismissed as fake a letter purporting his resignation from the SPLM-IO accusing unnamed members of what he calls NPTC regime.

The NPTC is an acronym of the defunct National Pre-Transitional Committee, a body created based on provisions of the revitalized peace agreement signed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by President Salva Kiir and his now deputy Dr. Riek Machar Teny.

In Mabior Garang’s sense, the NPTC is a coalition of South Sudanese politicians derailing the implementation of the 2018 peace agreement as key provisions of the peace agreement which ended the civil war in 2020.

In the letter, Mabior is purportedly said he resigned because “I have lost faith in the vision and principle of the party under the leadership of Dr. Riek Machar Teny. I joined the movement with the objectives of implementing reforms and transforming South Sudan into the nation my father, the late Dr. John Garang de Mabior, wanted.”

However, in a statement dismissing the claim, Mabior instead accused unnamed members of the NPTC regime, as he calls it, and hinted at the possibility that minister of petroleum was behind the forgery without giving evidence.

“The other [fake resignation] letter has surfaced again today and I now know it is the NPTC Regime’s work – Puot is mentioned in it by name. They are not happy that we are exposing the fact that they sold us out,” he said in the brief social media statement seen by Sudans Post.

“The revolutionary intellectuals know that any official document of mine is released on www.mabiorgarangspeaks.com . It will not be released on the social media of my detractors. I will soon make an official statement through this website,” he added.

He further “urged the “public to dismiss any official news not released through Mabior Garang Speaks.”