Gayoom backs Adeeb’s impeachment, expulsion from PPM
The PPM’s leader has backed the detained vice president’s expulsion and a motion to impeach him through parliament. Gayoom also denied that the PPM is weakened by Adeeb’s arrest.
27 Oct 2015, 9:00 AM
Expelling Vice President Ahmed Adeeb from the ruling Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) without an opportunity to defend himself is justified, the party’s leader and former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom said today.
“According to the party’s constitution, its disciplinary committee does not have to conduct its meetings in the same manner as a trial. That decision was timely,” Gayoom told reporters at the airport, before departing to India.
Adeeb, who is also the PPM’s deputy leader, was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of links to a blast on President Abdulla Yameen’s speedboat on September 28. The government says the explosion was caused by a bomb targeting the president.
Gayoom, who ruled the Maldives for 30 years, is Yameen’s half-brother.
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