President Salva Kiir. (Office of the President).

President Salva Kiir says he is tired of having five Vice Presidents citing views opposing the conduct of elections next year.

Kiir is currently deputized by Dr. Riek Machar, Dr. James Wani Igga, Hussein Andelbagi, Taban Deng Gai, and Rebecca Nyandeng.

They are in charge of the governance, economy, service delivery, infrastructure, and gender and youth clusters respectively.

“There are those who are saying that there are no elections, do you know if there is someone who is tired, there is nobody who is more tired than me? “I have five deputies and vice presidents, there is no country that has five deputy presidents.

Kiir said there is no country in the world with as many as five vice presidents, except South Sudan.

As such, he says the country should go for elections.

His statement comes days after Dr. Riek Machar said without security, a permanent constitution, and the return of refugees and resettlement of IDPS, there will be no elections.

But speaking at the swearing-in ceremony of SPLM national advisors, secretaries, and deputy secretaries in Juba this afternoon, President Kiir said the country must move forward with elections.

“If it is my deputies who go and encourage people to talk about it [no election], I [will] tell them there that there is no extension of the agreement, we must move forward, there is nothing that will let us go back.”