Yameen: If a just election is held, current leaders will be sent home

Opposition leader, former President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayyoom has stated that if the upcoming Sh. Komandoo parliamentary seat by-election scheduled to be held on February 5, is not influenced, those currently in power will be sent home.

Yameen made the statement at a rally held in Sh. Funadhoo today, in his ongoing trip to the atoll as part of PPM’s campaign for Komandoo by-election.

“The election is pretty near now. If a hand is put in this election, then the people will not stay still. For sure, if a hand is not put in this election, those currently in power will be slapped back home,” he had said.

Opposition PPM’s candidate is Moosa Fathuhy Adam. Ruling party, MDP's candidate for the Komandoo by-election is Mohamed Raashid. MNP’s candidate is Abdul Hannan Idrees.

Speaking further, Yameen said MDP will not be able to win this election should all political leaders come together, to one stone.

“Should all political leaders in the Maldives come together to one stone, the ruling MDP’s leaders do not have that capability. They do not have that sincerity. There is not respective the people’s views. That is why Maldives is in the current state it is in today,” he had said.

Noting that the situation the Maldives is currently in is not due to a food shortage or a health crisis – Yameen said it is not impossible to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The government is doing everything they have to do. All the money is distributed to their friends. All institutions have been stripped of their power. The institutions are paralyzed. Numbed. No institute can investigate the unconstitutional acts of this government,” he had said.

Yameen also alleged government’s influence on the courts. He added that the result of the influence on the courts is lowering the quality of normal citizens’ lives.

“This is not the Maldives, Maldivians wish for. This is not ‘Aneh Dhivehi Raajje’ either.  What we want is our Maldives. Our land,” he had said, whilst wearing t-shirt which read ‘India Out'.