If I had no role in coup, I don’t have to resign, Waheed tells BBC
09 Jun 2012, 5:39 PM
Daniel Bosley
President Dr Mohamed Waheed Hassan has told the BBC he would not necessarily resign even if the Commission of National Inquiry (CNI) were to find evidence of a coup, following investigations of the ousting of the former President Mohamed Nasheed.
“If [the commission] find out that I had a role in bringing about a coup, then I would definitely resign,” he said.
“But if I have no role – if somebody else has done it – it doesn’t mean I have to resign, according to the law of the Maldives.”
Waheed’s interview with the BBC came whilst the President was in London as an invitee to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
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