A former official in the government loyal to the Saudi-led coalition revealed on Tuesday that the Saudi ambassador to Yemen, Muhammad al-Jaber, is seeking to oust the defence minister and chief of staff of the puppet regime in Aden, and to replace them with others close to him.
Yemeni journalist and former media advisor to the Hadi puppet “government” embassy in Riyadh, Anis Mansour, said in a series of tweets that “The directives of the Saudi ambassador, al-Jaber, are to appoint Mohsen al-Daari as Defense Minister and Hashim al-Ahmar as Chief of General Staff.”
وزير الدفاع القادم محسن الداعري الذي يصر ال جابر على تعيينه وفق ترشيح @PresidentRashad والمؤسف ان يتم الاعتراض على صغير عزيز بتهمة الاخونة رغم انه مؤتمري وطني سبتمبري خاض صراع مع الاصلاح والحوثيين @AzizSagheir pic.twitter.com/90ysFJkrUs
— انيس منصور – Anes Mansoor (@anesmansory) July 12, 2022
Mansour confirmed, “Member of the Presidential Leadership Council, Othman Mujally, assured his close associates that Saghir bin Aziz [the current chief of the general staff] is no longer a member of the General People’s Congress, but has become a member of the Islah Party, and must be overthrown, a plan that was approved by Ambassador al-Jaber.”
