سعد زغلول
Following the death of Saad Zaghloul, the Wafd party began to see a rise in corruption, and a change of guard under new leader Mostafa El-Nahas. Ebeid warned of the rise in corruption within the party and pitfalls under Nahas' leadership in his "Black Book," and ended up breaking away from the Wafd party in 1942, forming his own political block, Hizb al-Kutlah al-Wafdiyyah. The rise of disunity and corruption within the ranks of the Wafd marked the decline of Ebeid's position in the political scene.