Now a new alleged scam involves theft from irrigation projects under NCP control.
But this is not a prospect that particularly appeals to the two parties that have ruled Sudan since 2005, the NCP in the north and the SPLM in the semi-autonomous south.Mr Bashir and his NCP, who seized power from Sudan's last democratically elected government in a coup in 1989, have for the past ten years been concerned mainly with enjoying the country's oil wealth.
It has given up its ambitious idea of promoting a genuinely national electoral strategy, which could have seen the southern movement leading a broad alliance of all of Sudan's oppressed ethnic groups in Darfur, in the south and in the east against the ruling NCP in Khartoum.
Such incidents suggested that the national election commission and the NCP were in cahoots.It is hard to say what would have happened if the vote in the north had been fair.
Of the rest, the NCP got 65% of the vote, the SPLM 17% and other northern opposition parties still fewer.
Of the entire sample, the NCP got 28% of eligible voters.The same poll pointed to a resounding victory for the SPLM in the south, where voting on the day was a much calmer affair.
Some opposition parties "boycotted" the vote in protest against the pre-election rigging of President Omar al-Bashir's ruling National Congress Party (NCP).
A parliamentary candidate, she is a leader of the Umma party, the main northern opposition to President Omar al-Bashir's ruling National Congress Party (NCP).
Maharashtra's ruling coalition since 1999, of the Congress Party and the NCP, often squabbles over who runs big projects.
"The NCP is planning to renege on its commitments, because it wants our petrodollars," the SPLM secretary-general, Pagan Amum, said in the heated atmosphere before the deal was struck.
The ruling NCP won nearly every seat in the north; many of the main opposition parties boycotted the poll.
