Brotherhood media pushes the Presidential Council to clash with the Southern Transitional Council
English - Thursday 09 June 2022 الساعة 04:49 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
The Brotherhood, the Presidential Command Council, is pushing for a military clash with the Transitional Council and its military forces in the south through incitement and lies spread by its activists on social media against the southerners.
The Brotherhood’s media attack on the Southern Transitional Council and the National Resistance has not stopped since the seizure of power from Hadi and Al-Ahmar and its transfer to the Presidential Leadership Council, which represents all parties, including STC President Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, and the leader of the National Resistance, Tariq Saleh.
Brotherhood media alleges the NTC’s refusal to restructure its forces within the ministries of defense and interior, although the transitional welcomed the decision to form a joint military committee to restructure the armed forces and lead the defense and interior ministries.
Last week, the Presidential Command Council approved the formation of a joint military committee, consisting of 59 members, headed by Major General Haitham Qassem Taher, whose mission is to restructure the military and security forces, correct their course and absorb them under the umbrella of the Ministries of Defense and Interior.
The Southern Transitional Council has called from an early age for the importance of structuring the leadership of the Ministries of Defense and Interior, and the implementation of the military and security part of the Riyadh Agreement.
The Brotherhood’s media spread rumors, false information, and accusations against the Southern Transitional Council and the National Resistance of being behind the extension of the armistice with the Houthi militia for their refusal to restructure the forces in Aden and the West Coast.
Brotherhood leader Sheikh Abdullah Al-Akimi, according to information obtained from an official in the presidency, said that the Presidential Leadership Council's acceptance of the extension of the armistice was due to Al-Zubaidi's refusal to integrate his forces into the framework of the Ministry of Defense.
Al-Akimi also alleged that Brigadier General Tariq Saleh refused to integrate the Republic's Guards into the Ministry of Defense.
Al-Akimi urged the Presidential Command Council to use force with the Transitional Council, and not to negotiate with the leadership of the Council over the restructuring of forces, calling on the so-called National Army to fight the Southern Transitional Council and liberate the capital, Aden.
The leader of the Transitional Council, Mansour Saleh, said that the joint military committee formed by the Presidential Command Council is tasked with absorbing all forces under the umbrella of the ministries of defense and interior, and restructuring the leadership of the two ministries with a new leadership to be chosen by consensus, in addition to organizing the armed forces to confront the Houthi militia as the primary objective of this process.
Saleh made it clear that the idea of merging that the Brotherhood is repeating is unacceptable, and was not mentioned in the Riyadh Agreement, nor the Riyadh consultations, which are the two references on which the formation of the Military and Security Committee was based.
