Okello created a Revolutionary Council and named the leader of the Afro-Shirazi Party,
Abeid Karume, as president and leader of the (Arabic) Umma-(Massa) Party, sheik
Abdulrahman Muhammad Babu as prime minister (later: vice-president). Both Karume and Babu had not been informed of the coup. Both residing in
Tanganyika, but returned to Zanzibar, where they were welcomed by Okello. However, neither Karume nor Babu wanted anything to do with him. Afterward, Okello appeared to be too unstable to play any role in government of the new country and was quietly sidelined from the political scene by Karume, who allowed him to retain his title of Field Marshal.[SUP]
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By 3 February Zanzibar was finally returning to normality and Karume had been accepted, almost unquestionably, as its president.[SUP]
[4][/SUP] Okello formed a paramilitary unit, known as the Freedom Military Force (FMF), from his own supporters which is known to have patrolled the streets and become involved with looting.[SUP]
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[6][/SUP] In addition Okello's violent rhetoric, his thick and dialectic English pronunciations and Acholi tribal English accent- typical of Acholi from Northern Uganda, and his Christian beliefs alienated many in the largely moderate, Zanzibari and Muslim ASP.[SUP]
[7][/SUP] By March many of his FMF had been disarmed by Karume's supporters and an Umma Party militia.[SUP]
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[7][/SUP] Okello was denied access to the country when he tried to return from a trip to the mainland and deported to Tanganyika and then to
Kenya before returning, destitute, to his native Uganda.[SUP]
[7][/SUP] He was officially removed from his post as Field Marshal on 11 March.[SUP]
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The People's Liberation Army (PLA) was formed by the government in April and completed the disarmament of Okello's remaining FMF troops.[SUP]
[7][/SUP] On 26 April Karume announced that he had negotiated to enter into a union with Tanganyika to form the new country of Tanzania.[SUP]
[9][/SUP] Karume's reason for doing so may have been to prevent the radicals in the Umma Party from taking over the country or to reduce the possibility of increasing communist influence in East Africa.[SUP]
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[10][/SUP] Despite this, many of the Umma Party's socialist policies on health, education and social welfare were adopted by the government.[SUP]
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