A strategic plan to remove Maumoon Abdul Gayoom as the ruling Progressive Party of Maldives’ (PPM) official president will be put together very soon, the party’s parliamentary group’s deputy leader and Inguraidhoo MP Ibrahim Falaah claimed on Saturday.
At a press conference representing 42 PPM-MDA lawmakers held at Dharubaaruge regarding the upcoming censure motion of the parliament’s speaker, MP Falaah claimed that after successfully defeating the censure motion submitted by opposition lawmakers, PPM’s parliamentary group will actively start work on removing the former president as the party’s official leader.
He claimed that the matter is already long over-due and said that it is of utmost importance.
PPM’s deputy leader and Fonadhoo MP Abdul Raheem Abdulla backed this claim and said that the removal of the party’s leader is achievable through the party regulations and accused Gayoom of sympathising with the opposition’s ideology.
Gayoom no longer has anything in common with the true ideologies of PPM, MP Abdul Raheem claimed.
A press conference was held on Saturday where the PPM-MDA coalition members individually expressed their support for parliament speaker Ahmed Maseeh.
Gayoom lost a bitter power struggle for party control with his half brother and incumbent president Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom after the country's civil court handed over party reins to the younger Gayoom.
The rift between the two brothers has split the party in two which ultimately ended with the elder Gayoom publicly withdrawing support for his brother.
