Police orders Gayoom to cancel meeting with PPM members
Gayoom was planning to launch a series of meetings with PPM members when two police officers visited the former president’s office this afternoon and informed his son Faris Maumoon that the gathering cannot take place.
18 Jan 2017, 9:00 AM
The police have told former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom to cancel plans to meet with members of the divided Progressive Party of Maldives at his office Wednesday night.
Gayoom was planning to launch a series of meetings with PPM members when two police officers visited the former president’s office this afternoon and informed his son Faris Maumoon that the gathering cannot take place.
Abdul Aleem, the Gayoom faction’s secretary-general, told the Maldives Independent that the policemen referred to a civil court ruling that stripped the 79-year-old of authority as the PPM’s elected leader and handed over control to President Abdulla Yameen.
“But we have not been given an official reason so far. It is an unlawful order as the party’s president only acts lawfully in accordance with the party charter. The party’s president should be able to meet members of the party at his office,” he said.
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