‘DAP has secret agenda against Pakatan allies’

The party plans to take over MB posts by fielding Malay candidates, says a former aide of Ronnie Liu.

GEORGE TOWN: A former employee in Selangor executive councillor Ronnie Liu’s office alleged today that DAP had launched covert operations to sideline PAS and PKR, dominate Pakatan Rakyat and take control of state governments by appointing its Malay members as menteri besar.

Jafrei Nordin, who quit his job today, told newsmen that DAP aimed to field many Malay candidates across the country, especially in Perak and Selangor, in the coming general election in order to achieve this agenda.

He claimed that Liu was among the DAP “big boys” pushing for the election candidacy of capable and liberal-minded Malays.

“I know where the secret meetings are held to identify and shortlist candidates to contest in Selangor and Perak,” he said at a press conference where he was accompanied by independent Nibong Tebal MP Tan Tee Beng.

Jafrei’s allegation echoed a claim by former DAP vice-president Tunku Abdul Aziz that the party had had been courting a son of the Negeri Sembilan Yang di-Pertuan Besar.

Tunku Aziz recently said that DAP national organising secretary Anthony Loke had asked him to persuade Tunku Zain Al-’Abidin to contest a state seat to enable the party to have a menteri besar candidate if Pakatan were to win Negeri Sembilan.

Jafrei claimed to know that certain hidden hands were at work in Malaysiakini and other Pakatan-friendly media organisations to undermine the credibility of PAS and Umno leaders, the aim being to foil efforts to forge Malay leadership solidarity.

He said former PAS deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa was a victim of such an operation.

He also said DAP believed that Barisan Nasional would be defeated in the coming polls and Umno would subsequently lose its relevance in Malay politics, to be replaced by PAS.

“The DAP has now mobilised its election specialists to shift target and zero in on PAS leaders deemed as threats to its agenda.”

He said DAP had unlimited resources to pursue its agenda and capitalise on PAS’ weaknesses to control state governments in the peninsula and Sarawak.

“I call on my PAS friends to stop being DAP pimps,” he said. “Enough is enough.”

‘Malay jokers’

He also alleged that Liu and other top DAP leaders had privately dismissed PKR as a “party of jokers” and mocked Anwar Ibrahim and Azmin Ali as two “Malay jokers” and Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim as “Khalid Gagap” (Khalid the Stutterer).

He said some DAP leaders were convinced that Anwar was the man in the China Doll sex video and Azmin the man in the “ice-cream” video.

He said Liu had laughed at Malays for thronging Azmin’s rallies even after the PKR deputy president’s alleged “toilet exploits” had been exposed.

“Ronnie Liu has even cynically asked me how Malays could support PKR, helmed as it is by jokers.”

Jafrei claimed that he had been a DAP activist, although not a member, since 2004 because he believed that the party cared for the people and was multi-racial.

Jafrei joined Liu’s staff on July 1, 2008.

He said he had decided to quit and spill the beans on DAP because he realised that the party’s leaders were racist, greedy, power-crazy and did not care for the people.

“They don’t walk their talk,” he added.

He claimed it was out of fear for his safety that he had decided to have his press conference in Penang instead of Selangor.

“I am prepared to make a statutory declaration and testify in court to substantiate my statement,” he said.