I resign because I am not a person who wishes to rule with the use of power

"I resign because I am not a person who wishes to rule with the use of power. I believe that if the government were to remain in power it would require the use force which would harm many citizens. I resign because I believe that if the government continues to stay in power, it is very likely that we may face foreign influences. I have always wished the citizens of this country well, now and into the future. I have made this decision and I wish for your prosperity "

Though faced with challenges from all the state bodies, oppositions, influential businessmen and their supporters, President Nasheed's government was gaining its foothold and was doing considerably well. There were noticeable reasons why the opposition banded together and rallied against the government from day one.

Mohamed Nasheed's government sharply focused on the key areas to improve the infrastructure and lives of individual Maldivians. It is noteworthy that the MDP, led by Mohamed Nasheed, is the only party which clearly had stated their vision for the Maldives and its people. The manifesto of MDP was based on public opinion deduced to five pledges.

They were; making housing affordable, eliminate having to beg for healthcare, connect all islands through a transport system, close all doors to drugs, and reduce living expenditures. To fulfill the pledges this visionary leader brought significant improvement which were easily noticeable and observed by the people. The pledges were tackled strategically by the government as follows.

1 - Housing crisis in Maldives was tackled by building of houses and flats across many islands.

2 - Considerable improvement to the public health sector with policies that gives coverage for all the citizens without discrimination, providing free healthcare.

3 - Transportation services around Maldives, thereby freeing the islanders to pipeline their businesses across islands.

4 - Prevention of substance abuse by the youth which was rampant across the nation. Introducing second chance and rehabilitation opportunities, and bringing drug dealers to justice.
5 - Tailored economic changes with strict and stringent monitoring systems through government bodies and reducing the overhead of the government, narrowing chances for corruption and enforcing accountability.

6 - Freedom of speech by allowing a healthy growth of media and letting the media evolve itself.

7 - Revamping of the educational sector with equal opportunities for all.
8 - Providing business opportunities to the middle class and introduction of public private partnerships.

9 - Clean water and proper sewerage system in many islands.

10 - Targeted improvement towards the fishing industry by considering the wellbeing of the fishermen by eliminating the monopoly arrangements that existed.

11 - Construction of new ports in several islands and renovation of existing ports in many islands, that lacked the ability to serve the needs of the islanders.

These are just few out of many which were witnessed by all the Maldivians on a phenomenal scale. This led to the opposition and extremists to become vigilant to seek out any opportunity to strangle the ongoing liberalization of the country. Each and every innovative and healthy idea by the government was met with forces to trivialize or instill terror to the hearts of the citizens using religion and false patriotism as tools.
The things that the moderate Muslims in Maldives digested or less cared for now became life threatening events with the new perspective propagated by the extremist's scholars backed by corrupt politicians and businessmen.

When the opposition and religious scholars had enough flimsy reasons that they could use to delude the public, they gathered almost the whole nation under the banner of protecting Islam against president Nasheed and the government, on 23rd December 2012.

The plot of over-throwing the government was perfected when the opposition was able to bribe the egoistic vice president of Mohamed Nasheed, Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik with the promise to crown him as the leader of the nation by any means.

The opposition leaders and scholars started a new agenda of calling out for police and military personnel to not obey the government and form an alliance with them. They promised job security for any security personnel who may have to face expulsion or court martial while trying to act against the government while in uniform. This was a stunt by the opposition to deceive the public of what they will be seeing in the coming days.

While all these side shows were taken care of, with the help of big businessman and politicians, the heads of the army were being bribed either with a promise of prominence or financial aid if they could gather a force within police force and military who were still loyal to the 30 year old dictator and his supporters. The result turned out well for the opposition and they were able to creep into the security forces and to the hearts of most of the top leadership to come up with an execution plan to bring down the democratically elected government.

On 6th February 2012 with the help all the TV and radio stations except for the state stations, the oppositions were broadcasting their scheme through the Maldives. The announcement from the then Vice president of Mohamed Nasheed over the TV and radio channels informing and assuring the armed force gave the needed hope for police to execute their plans under the leadership of the opponents.

This all began when few police disobeyed the command of the Commander in Chief and went and vandalized the ruling party's hall and attacked few politicians.

On 7th February early morning, police were able to voice their disapproval of President Nasheed. They hesitated to disperse themselves with the command issued. Mutinying police strengthened their force by calling all, on duty and off duty police officers, asking them to immediately come to the Republic Square. Most of the police officers that gathered at the republic square were clueless of what was going on.

Civilians and more police officers joined together and attacked the Maldives Nations Defense Force (MNDF) headquarters where president Nasheed was in. It is worthy to note that they were disrespectfully attacking a headquarter of which even to snap a photo was prohibited. Several riot arms were given to civilians by the police officers, by breaking into the armory of the police headquarters.

Many MNDF personnel also joined the rebel group of mutinying police and civilians to resist the commands that were issued by the remaining leadership, which was in support of the president and the government.

When the people behind the scheme realized that they had enough strength and ground to come out of their hiding, they all gathered in the Police headquarters, which was under the control of the mutinying police.

A former police officer and a retired colonel were assigned to control the security forces from within. When the opportunity arrived they both went to the ground and entered MNDF headquarters to issue the ultimatum to president Nasheed that if he did not resign peacefully within the given time he will face the consequences.

After the non-negotiable ultimatum was given to President Nasheed by threatening his family and supporters, he agreed to resign. The President wanted to formally resign at the President's Office to ensure that he could get away from the army headquarters, which had lost command and control due to the division within the security forces.

President Nasheed arrived at the President's Office with heavy military presence. Upon entering the President's Office he wrote his resignation as a hand written letter while leaning near a podium. With a short meeting with some cabinet members that were present at the President's Office, the democratically elected President was forced to resign from the highest post of Maldives, which was authorized to him by the people of Maldives.

President Nasheed arrived at the President's Office with heavy military presence. Upon entering the President's Office he wrote his resignation as a hand written letter while leaning near a podium. With a short meeting with some cabinet members that were present at the President's Office, the democratically elected president resigned from the highest post of Maldives, which was authorized to him by the people of Maldives.

Shortly afterwards, Vice president Dr. Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik was sworn in in a rush to establish and completely cover up the chaos which was well broadcasted and documented all over the world.

It is noteworthy that none of the police officers or the army personnel, who were involved in attacking the MNDF headquarters, was brought to justice nor any disciplinary actions taken against them.

The over throwing of the government was followed by hundreds of promotions to police officers and MNDF military personnel.