Khartoum, January 03 (Saba) - The Popular Congress Party (PCP) led by Islamist opposition figure Hassan Al-Turabi formally announced that it has nominated a Southerner to run in the April 2010 presidential elections. Al-Turabi said that the decision to nominate the party's deputy Abdullah Deng Nhial was reached by the majority (76%) as an "expression to address the conscience of a large sector of southerners and northerners," the (Sudan Tribune) reported Sunday, according to Qatar News Agency (QNA).
He added that the biggest crisis facing Sudan is the North-South one and thus putting forward a candidate from the Dinka tribe, the largest tribe in the south, could bring an end to beliefs that there is marginalization because major posts are limited to Northerners. Nhial was a professor in Juba University in 1985 then a minister of Guidance and Endowments following the 1989 coup, a minister for peace and reconstruction, the White Nile governor in 1994 before siding with Turabi in his 1999 major fallout with Bashir.

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