The government will not yield to the whims of a single person despite opposition and resistance, pronounced the President’s Office’s spokesperson Ibrahim Muaz Ali late Saturday.
Countering the criticisms that followed former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom officially withdrawing his support for half-brother and incumbent president Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom’s government on Thursday night, Muaz declared in a series of tweets that the government will maintain the people as its priority and its progress will not be impeded by the withdrawal of one person’s support.
Muaz indirectly stated that the elder Gayoom’s retraction of support was due to the government not proceeding as per his personal wishes.
“Even if a certain person takes back his support and makes accusations and rises up against the government that he believed would proceed as he wished but did not achieve it, it makes no difference to the policies this government believes in,” he said.
He promised that the government will always work for the good and benefit of the people.
Muaz added that former presidents and opposition groups must make way for the development projects undertaken by the current government, and maintain peace without evoking disputes among the youth.
Gayoom had taken back his support for President Yameen’s regime at the press conference attended by PPM members loyal to him at SHE Building after he and his party faction were denied entry to PPM office to participate in the party’s fifth anniversary celebration late Thursday.
He had highly criticised President Yameen’s rule, declaring that the government, which had come into power holding the country as its first priority, is currently acting in violation of the law, regulations and democratic policies. With the separation of powers disrupted, he stated that one voice has dominated all three powers of legislative, executive and judicial. The former president described the current situation of the nation as authoritarian with all citizens forced to bow before a single entity. Noting the recent exposes on corruption within the government, he said that the state-controlled parliament has passed laws and amendments debilitating to the public.
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