On Monday Bouteflika, in poor health and rarely seen in public since he suffered a stroke in 2013, had said he would quit before the end of his term on April 28. But chief of staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaed Salah said that statement had been issued by "unconstitutional and unauthorized parties", APS said. "Bouteflika's decision (to resign by the end of his term) will change nothing," Mustapha Bouchachi, a lawyer and protest leader, told Reuters earlier on Tuesday. Bouchachi had suggested Bouteflika's nomination of a caretaker government was a move to perpetuate the current political system. "The gang has made big money illegally taking advantage of its closeness with decision-makers," Salah said, according to APS, referring to unnamed business people.

Source: bd News24 April 02, 2019 19:41 UTC