Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Musulmai marasa addini da kuma wadanda ba Musulmai ba na Kudu sun yi tsayayya da tilasta dokar Musulunci. Ko da kafin a fitar da Dokokin Satumba, duk da haka, John Garang, shugaban kungiyar Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) ya yi watsi da gwamnati kuma ya fara shirya 'yan adawa na Kudu don kifar da Nimeiry. Aiwatar da hukuncin hudud, wanda ya hada da bulala da yanke hannaye da ƙafafu, ya tayar da babbar adawa ga gwamnatin Nimeiry. Bayan hambarar da Nimeiry a shekarar 1985, gwamnatin Swar al-Dahab ta dakatar da mafi tsananin hukunce-hukuncen hudud. Dukansu Swar al-Dahab da wanda ya gaje shi ta hanyar dimokiradiyya, Sadiq al-Mahdi, sun goyi bayan shari'a amma sun soki hanyar aiwatar da Nimeiry. A farkon shekarar 1989, al-Mahdi mai jinkiri ya nuna shirye-shiryensa na yin la'akari da soke dokokin shari'a masu rikitarwa. Wannan ya sa abokin kawancen sa, al-Turabi da National Islamic Front (NIF), suka yi murabus daga gwamnati don nuna rashin amincewa. Al-Mahdi ya ba da sanarwar cewa majalisar zartarwa za ta yi la'akari da kudirin dokar da za ta soke dokokin Satumba a ranar 1 ga Yuli, 1989, kuma za ta gana da shugabannin SPLM don warware matsalar ta hanyar lumana don kawo karshen yakin basasa. Ƙungiyar
Juyin mulkin soja na watan Yunin 1989 wanda al-Bashir ya jagoranta ya faru ne kawai sa'o'i 24 kafin gwamnatin al-Mahdi ta shirya za ta kada kuri'a kan soke dokokin Satumba.