(MENAFN) After recently announcing that Yemen's former president was being held under house arrest in Saudi Arabia, the country's minister of state has announced his resignation.
In a post on Twitter late on Tuesday, Salah al-Sayadi said: "I declare my final resignation from the government for reasons I will explain later".
The minister had said that President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi was under house arrest in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. He warned of negative consequences for Yemenis if Hadi did not return to his country.
"All Yemenis are calling for demonstrations and rallies for the return of President Hadi to Yemen," al-Sayadi said.
Commenting on to the controversy surrounding Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri's reported detention in Saudi Arabia, al-Sayadi said that while it took the Lebanese people a matter of days to get their prime minister back, the Yemeni president has been lost for three years.
He added that Yemeni pressure for the return of President Hadi would ensure the defeat of "Iranian militias" in Yemen.
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