On return from exile, ex-MP Nazim claims key role in forming coalition
Nazim said he facilitated a meeting between the MDP parliament leader and former president Gayoom’s son.
19 Nov 2018, 9:00 AM
Saya Ahmed
On his return from exile last week, former deputy speaker Ahmed Nazim claimed to have played a key role in forming the opposition coalition against the administration of former president Abdulla Yameen.
Nazim, formerly a close associate and Yameen loyalist, was jailed for 25 years on a corruption charge in April 2015. He sought asylum in the UK after he was granted medical leave to travel to Singapore.
“The foundation for this work was laid when I was allowed to travel abroad. When I was in Singapore for medical treatment, I facilitated a meeting between Faris Maumoon and Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. That meeting held in my presence was where the foundation for the coalition was laid,” he told reporters at the airport Saturday morning.
The coalition led by the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party was bolstered by the weight of Faris’s father, former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, in March last year. Solih, who was the MDP’s parliament leader, went on to decisively defeat the incumbent in September’s polls as the joint opposition candidate.
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