Abdelwahid Aboud Mackaye Abdelwahid Aboud Mackaye ( born 1953 ) is a Chadian insurgent leader involved in the war to topple the Chadian President Idriss Déby . Originally a fighter in the Democratic Revolutionary Council ( CDR ) militia during the first Chadian Civil War , under Déby he became a civil servant before defecting to the rebels in 2003 . After having been for a time first in the FUC and later in the UFDD , he has founded in 2007 the UFDD - Fundamental , which has participated in February 2008 to the unsuccessful attack on N ' Djamena . A Salamat Arab , Abdelwahid was born in 1953 near to Oum Hadjer in Batha . He fought as a CDR militian in 1980 in the second battle of N ' Djamena which saw confronted the President Goukouni Oueddei and his Defence Minister Hissène Habré ; during the confrontation Abdelwahid was wounded , and since then he has always limped . Successively he became a civil servant , and occupying under the government of Idriss Déby the office of subprefect . In 2003 Abdelwahid broke with Déby and passed in open rebellion . He became secretary - general of the Chadian rebel group FIDEL , and , after the group ' s union with other organizations , one of the leaders of the newly formed United Front for Democratic Change ( FUC ) rebel alliance , founded in December 2005 and under the presidency of Mahamat Nour Abdelkerim . On January 19 , 2006 , Abdelwahid was arrested , along with nineteen other rebels , after participating in an interview to Radio France Internationale in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum , in which he stated that " FUC ' s relations with the Sudanese government are friendly - very close " , and argued that this was in line with the tradition under which successive Chadian rebellions had seized power with some degree of support from Khartoum . The Sudanese government repeatedly denied the accusation of Chadian President Idriss Déby that the Sudanese government was providing financial and material support to the FUC . He was released from jail shortly after . His arrest was denounced by the Dakar - based human rights organization RADDHO . Abdelwahid organized in April together with Nour the attack on the capital , which ended in a defeat for the rebels . During those days Déby arrested for fear of collusion with the rebels the general Ahmat Fadoul Makaye , the Chadian army ' s Deputy Chief of Staff and cousin of Abdelwahid . He was cleared of all suspicions and freed three days later . The latter was removed on September 26 with Issa Moussa Tamboulé from the FUC ' s political bureau ; he was allegedly suspected of secretly plotting with the Déby government . Around the same time Abdelwahid , who represented an Arab faction increasingly hostile to Nour since his failed attack , using his position of secretary - general destituted Nour . Following this , Abdelwahid with a group of FUC dissidents united with Acheikh ibn Oumar ' s Democratic Revolutionary Council ( CDR ) and Mahamat Nouri ' s Union of Forces for Progress and Democracy ( UFPD ) to found on October 22 the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development ( UFDD ) . In April 2007 , a major crisis shook the UFDD , when the Vice - President Acheikh ibn Oumar demanded Nouri a major role to his men in movement ' s apparatus . Nouri refused and expelled Acheikh and consolidated the control of his ethnic group , the Gorane , over the UFDD After Acheikh , also Abdelwahid , anxious to retake his freedom of movement from Nouri , left the UFDD and founded in May with Acheikh a new armed group , the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development - Fundamental ( UFDD - F ) , an Arab - dominated group estimated to count on about 500 militians . Abdelwahid took part to the peace talks held through Libyan mediation in Tripoli between the Chadian government and the leaders of four rebel movements , the UFDD with Nouri , the Rassemblement des Forces pour le Changement ( RFC ) with Timane Erdimi , The Chadian National Concord with Hassan Saleh al - Djinedi and the UFDD - F . At the beginning of the talks on June 23 , Abdelwahid stated that the " problem is mostly of a constitutional order " , adding that they " demand a revision of the constitution to reopen the road to transition " . An important stage in the talks was reached on October 3 when the government and the four rebel groups signed an accord in Tripoli on power - sharing in the government and the integration of the rebel forces in the Chadian army . Among the rebel leaders , Abdelwahid was the only one to call the paper signed a " definitive accord " , while the others only considered it provisional . Due to the latters objection the four rebel leaders signed on October 25 a new accord in Surt , presumed to be definitive , under which the armed movements would disarm in November and become political parties . The accord was broken already on November 26 , giving way to violent fighting between the rebels and the government . In December , due to Sudanese pressures , reapproached himself to Nouri and Erdimi , forming with them in mid - December a Unified Military Command with Abderahman Koulamallah as spokesman . Abdelwahit claimed that after his bases within Sudan were attacked twice by the Chad Air Force , first on December 28 and later on January 6 , 2008 . By the end of January , the three rebels leaders put on the ground 3 , 000 men for an attack on the capital to deal onca and for all with Déby . The forces reach the capital , but are defeated after a battle that leaves 160 dead on the ground , forcing the rebels to retreat .