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Surprises were the natural development in the political field in Sudan, and therefore they did not cause astonishment to political observers or those working in the political field. The head of government issued a statement in which he described three of his ministers as absent from meetings of the Council of Ministers, with the aim of obstructing important government work, foremost among which is the Sudanization of jobs in the administration and the army, and accused them in his statement of cooperating with the Umma Party to bring down the government in parliament. As soon as this statement spread among the people, the three ministers, Mirghani Hamza, Minister of Education, Agriculture and Irrigation, and Khalafallah Khalid, Minister of Defense, and Ahmed Jali, Minister of State, issued a statement to the press in response to the Prime Minister's statement, in which they accused the Prime Minister of wasting the state's time with his trip to England and then some European countries, which he himself described as a courtesy trip. The statement then clarified that the President made the Council of Ministers into two circles: internal and external. As for the internal circle, important decisions are made without presenting them to the council, and it consists of ministers from the old Brothers Party. As for the external circle, their opinion is only sought on matters of general administration.
The statement accused the President of engaging in maneuvers with officials in Egypt that would lead to a situation for Sudan in relation to Egypt that is not in line with the goals and principles adhered to by the majority of the people. The statement concluded by accusing the head of government and some of his ministers of communicating with the Umma Party without revealing the purposes and results of this communication to the rest of the ministers and members of the party council. The inevitable result of issuing such a statement by the ministers was their dismissal from their positions and their replacement in ministerial positions. This happened, and the Prime Minister issued a decision to dismiss them from their positions and replaced them with other ministers from the National Unionist Party.
But the three ministers did not remain silent, which was expected. After their dismissal, they issued another statement to the press in which they went into more detail about the internal differences that the ruling party had been experiencing. They accused the Prime Minister, once again, of negligence in the issue of the Nile waters between Egypt and Sudan and of conspiring with the rulers of Egypt on a political situation that Sudanese people do not accept, and of concealing conspiracies carried out by the military attaché at the Egyptian embassy in Khartoum, and with some Sudanese army officers to carry out a military coup in Sudan.
As for their political opinion on the future of rule in Sudan, they expressed it in the following paragraph: "We call for union with Egypt, not union against it. We see this union within the independence of our systems, our independent government, our independent parliament, our separate foreign representation, and our progress."