Nasheed assures his supporters that he will come back to power
I will appoint an Adduan who is not a rebel as my VP- Nasheed

Ex-President Mohamed Nasheed has assured his supporters in Addu City that he will come back to power soon and that he will appoint an Adduan who is not a rebel as his Vice President.

In a move that is interpreted by the government coalition parties as a campaign gimmick ahead of his planned trip to Addu City yesterday, ex-President Nasheed warned his successor President Dr. Waheed’s government against ‘messing about’ with the state enterprise structure his administration had established.

Addressing a crowd of about three hundred people at Feydhoo MDP activity centre yesterday evening, Nasheed harped about his achievements in the health sector, artfully slipping on to the subject of Addu’s road construction projects most of which haven’t come off the drawing boards yet. 

“My hope is to return back to power. This power that we have lost is a power that his linked to the progress and development of this country. We have lost the fundamentals of this developments that we were hoping that we will bring to Maldives. We know how to develop the islands. We know that we should uphold democratic values. We are worried and concerned because what we have lost is democracy,” he said.

Despite these claims by the ex-President, the current government’s coalition parties allege that Nasheed’s immature government bogged the Country into a MVR 23 billion (US$ 1.5 billion) debt crisis in the short span of just three years. According to them, the major chunk of this enormous fiscal setback is attributed to the 67 non-functioning outpost companies Nasheed created to give positions of power in the islands to his party activists and friends.