Opposition Deputy Leader and Spokesperson Ibrahim ‘Mavota’ Shareef has confirmed that while the voice in an audio clip leaked yesterday was his, parts of the conversation had been edited.
During the conversation Shareef questions the support for former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom in Addu, and suggested that were Gayoom’s faction to campaign there, “we will beat them up and drag them away [from Addu].”
That led to a crowd gathering outside the Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) headquarters calling for the resignation of Shareef and Leader Ahmed Thasmeen Ali. When Shareef confronted the crowd he was attacked, and escorted to safety by police.
The source of the leaked phone call, which was aired on MNBC and DhiFM, has not been identified. However Shareef told Haveeru that the recording was engineered by mixing parts of a conversation he had with several different people, after dismissed Deputy Leader Umar Naseer “created conflicts by attending our function.”
“We were have conversations with several people. A group of people recorded such a conversation and leaked it,” he told Haveeru. “The part of the leaked audio, in which I was saying ‘Gayoom cannot go to Addu to campaign’, was edited. I never said it directly.”
Shareef and Thasmeen were not responding to calls at time of press.
Spokesperson for Gayoom Hussein ‘Mundhu’ Shareef was quoted in Haveeru as saying that Mavota Shareef owed an apology to the former President: “Maumoon holds the most honorary position in the DRP and is linked to many people’s spirit. So no-one can make a comment in order to tarnish the reputation of Maumoon,” Haveeru reported Mundhu as saying.
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The frog still lives?
And a msg to frog : Its Maumoon who should be seeking forgiveness from the nation, not Shareef whos spit out what he thought.
"Maumoon holds the most honorary position in the DRP and is linked to many people’s spirit. So no-one can make a comment in order to tarnish the reputation of Maumoon"
yes we can and majority of the population always will. lol
His Holiness Saint Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Honorary Supreme Leader of Universe and the Zaeem of DRP's blithering thugs of his highness Moyamoon will never act violent, its simply not in Moyamoon or in his little brothers or in his Elder son's blood to organize violence. These are all lies, lies and more lies.
F U bloody Mundhu. Is Maumoon your GOD!! My ggodness when would you guys realise the truth.
What happened to the freedom of speech??? and expression of thoughts????