Cairo, March 14: Former Egyptian military Chief of employees Sami Anan announced Thursday that he won’t join the country’s upcoming presidential race.

“I refrain from being pushed into a plot that aims to harm Egypt and its soldiers,” Anan aforesaid, noting that the country is facing challenges and conspiracies that need unity between the people and the military.

Anan said that he served the country’s army for half a century and can be forever happy with belonging to “such a good army”.

Anan was once a military adviser for ousted Muslim president Mohamed Morsi. He has featured criticism from supporters of military chief and Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.

The latter suspect him of being “the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood” that is presently blacklisted by the interim government as a ” terrorist organisation”.

Anan’s announcement leaves Sisi because the only expected presidential hopeful from the soldiers, as the latter’s quality has adult within the turmoil-stricken country. lots of Sisi’s supporters have called on him to join the presidential race.

Leftist leader Hamdeen Sabahy, who had previously voiced support for Sisi as “a national hero”, was the first to possess formally announced to hitch the presidential race.