Minivan News is at it again. It appears that whenever the current government makes a blunder, MN comes to its aid.

According to MN, the president's rebuttal is summed up thus:
'...the public has become overly accustomed to the same manner of speech after having the same ruler, Mamoon Abdul Gayoom, for the last thirty years.'

If that is the president's idea of an apology then he certainly has no respect for equality and fairness. His statements are no less than intentional fear-mongering devised to attain political leverage for his party. Debate all you want, but there is no contextual distortion in that interpretation.

If it is the pressures of the job getting to him, then he should offer a proper apology. This author suspects that any such apology will surface (if at all) only after the parliamentary elections.