Former Vice President Mohamed Jameel Ahmed has said that he hopes Maldivians shouldn’t have to wait as long as residents of Zimbabwe to ‘see the fall of a dictator’.
Jameel made his comments in a post on his Twitter account following the resignation of Zimbabwe’s strong man Robert Gabriel Mugabe after nearly four decades in office.
We hope our people will not have to wait as long as Zimbabweans did to see a dictator’s downfall. Parallels between tyrants Mugabe & Yameen are striking. Unconstitutional activities, plundering millions, destroying economy & an ambitious First Lady virtually running a nation pic.twitter.com/n4WJeDm3OV
— Mohamed Jameel Ahmed (@MJameelAhmed) November 21, 2017
93-year-old Mugabe, who has been in office since 1980, refused to step down despite continued protest and pressure from lawmakers.
He is succeeded by former vice president, Emerson Mnangagwa, and not his current deputy Phelekezela Mphoko.
Jameel has been living abroad since his tenure as vice president ended in 2015 through a vote of no-confidence submitted by the ruling party and backed by the opposition.
Jameel had later been named leader of the Maldives United Opposition, a coalition between opposition parties.
