Former Deputy Speaker of the Maldivian Parliament, People’s Majlis, Reeko Moosa Manik has blasted Former President Nasheed of ignorance and incompetence in the fall of his government in its third year on 7 February 2012.
Manik’s statement came in response to the participation of MPs belonging to Speaker Nasheed’s ‘Revival of a Thought Movement’ in the rally held on Friday by opposition parties including PPM, PNC, Former Home Minister Umar Naseer, and Maldives National Congress under the slogan ‘No to Sale of the Seas’. Reeko Moosa alleged that the coup d’état of 7 February was a self-coup orchestrated by the then president Nasheed with the full backing of Umar Naseer, Former President Waheed and MNP leader Colonel Nazim. Moosa said that this claim of his has been proven right as political leaders he named had attended opposition’s Friday-night rally.
Moosa said that following the resignation of President Nasheed on 7 February 2012, many (members of the ruling MDP) faced unforeseen losses and hardships. He also said that if Nasheed were to resign after making a truthful statement on his incompetence to govern, many people and members of his party would not have bought into the emotional chaos that followed. Also most of the losses that followed could have been avoided had he acted that way according to Moosa.
‘Last night (Friday night) I have concluded that it (self-coup) was something undertaken and delivered by Nasheed in association with Umar, Waheed and Nazim. Nasheed - the rebel, could have resigned from his post without causing such immense loss and pain to that many people’, said Reeko Moosa.
Nasheed and MDP, have still not conceded to the ruling of the Commission of National Inquiry (CoNi) in which the body decided that the there was no coup d’état that preceded the resignation of President Nasheed and the subsequent collapse of his government in 2012. They claim that they have not been served justice by CoNI and mark the day every year.
Even though Nasheed and other leaders of the ruling MDP claim that his resignation was forced on him by opposition parties and members from the security forces, the argument is weakened by the fact that many of the then opposition members are in the present coalition government of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. Among the then opposition leaders that belong to the present coalition government include Home Minister Imran Abdullah.
Manik’s statement came in response to the participation of MPs belonging to Speaker Nasheed’s ‘Revival of a Thought Movement’ in the rally held on Friday by opposition parties including PPM, PNC, Former Home Minister Umar Naseer, and Maldives National Congress under the slogan ‘No to Sale of the Seas’. Reeko Moosa alleged that the coup d’état of 7 February was a self-coup orchestrated by the then president Nasheed with the full backing of Umar Naseer, Former President Waheed and MNP leader Colonel Nazim. Moosa said that this claim of his has been proven right as political leaders he named had attended opposition’s Friday-night rally.
Moosa said that following the resignation of President Nasheed on 7 February 2012, many (members of the ruling MDP) faced unforeseen losses and hardships. He also said that if Nasheed were to resign after making a truthful statement on his incompetence to govern, many people and members of his party would not have bought into the emotional chaos that followed. Also most of the losses that followed could have been avoided had he acted that way according to Moosa.
‘Last night (Friday night) I have concluded that it (self-coup) was something undertaken and delivered by Nasheed in association with Umar, Waheed and Nazim. Nasheed - the rebel, could have resigned from his post without causing such immense loss and pain to that many people’, said Reeko Moosa.
Nasheed and MDP, have still not conceded to the ruling of the Commission of National Inquiry (CoNi) in which the body decided that the there was no coup d’état that preceded the resignation of President Nasheed and the subsequent collapse of his government in 2012. They claim that they have not been served justice by CoNI and mark the day every year.
Even though Nasheed and other leaders of the ruling MDP claim that his resignation was forced on him by opposition parties and members from the security forces, the argument is weakened by the fact that many of the then opposition members are in the present coalition government of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. Among the then opposition leaders that belong to the present coalition government include Home Minister Imran Abdullah.
