Dictator Gayoom Admits Rigging 2008 Presidential Election

Former President of Maldives, Dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom who ruled the country with an iron fist for 30 years has admitted to have rigged the 2008 Presidential Elections.

The shameless despot had the audacity to confess his grave crime in front of his followers, who have made the pledge of allegiance to the old man after splitting away from the main opposition DRP. Dictator Gayoom said that he lost in the Presidential Election of 2008 because he tried to rig and commit electoral fraud.

Dictator Gayoom said that he accepts to the wrong, but however he said that he does not want to talk of it.

Presidential elections 2008 were the first multi-party democratic election ever held in the Maldives. On October 8, no candidate gained more than 50% of the vote; a runoff was held on October 28 between the tyrant Gayoom and Mohamed Nasheed and his running mate, Dr. Mohammed Waheed Hassan.  Nasheed and Dr. Waheed won the election, unseating long time incumbent Gayoom.  All candidates except Gayoom accepted the results not one of them except the old man expressed their discontent over it.

This confession of this shameless despot to have tried to commit electoral fraud in the very first democratic election held in the country is proof enough that he must have rigged the earlier elections to which he had the full authority during his 30 year iron fist rule.

This is the same autocrat who was bold enough to say, “… at that time it may have been illegal; I have not become President yet; but I had weapons. And the 6 or so people I mentioned also had weapons…." speaking to the People's Majlis on 6 May 1980.

Gayoom confessed that he possessed weapons on the eve of 11 November 1978, during his swearing ceremony. In 1980 President Gayoom made the above statement to the Majlis, according to a book published by National Center for Linguistic and Historical Research, 'Godhiraajage naakaamiyaabu baghaavaath".

Gayoom should be arrested by now to answer charges of rigging the general elections during his dictatorship and his possession of illegal weapons. The people of Maldives expect Gayoom to turn away from the political arena all together. The people of this country had suffered enough. Enough is enough old man. Leave the politics, this will only set free your conscious and that will be good for your health.