He was later Minister for Fisheries in the 1980s and, most recently, Minister for Health and Welfare in the 1990s. In 1998 Didi became chair of the council of the Maldives College of Higher Education (MCHE), which was renamed Maldives National University in 2011. During the mass demonstrations in September 2003, he chaired a presidential commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Evan Naseem, who previously died in prison with two other inmates under unexplained circumstances.