PKR: Membership not approved for Saiful's dad

 

(fz.com) - Despite being paraded at PKR's headquarters in party cap and vest less than two months ago, Azlan Mohd Lazim, the father of the Mohd Saiful Bukhari, had not been approved as a member, PKR supreme council member Datuk Johari Abdul said today.

PETALING JAYA (May 1): Despite being paraded at PKR's headquarters in party cap and vest less than two months ago, Azlan Mohd Lazim, the father of the Mohd Saiful Bukhari, had not been approved as a member, PKR supreme council member Datuk Johari Abdul said today.

 

At that time, Azlan had claimed that the sodomy charge by Mohd Saiful against PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was part of a political conspiracy and announced that he was joining PKR.

 

Earlier today, Azlan made a U-turn and said that his son was indeed sodomised by Anwar and subsequently, withdrew his PKR membership.

 

Johari, who had claimed previously that Azlan had sought him out to expose the conspiracy against Anwar, reiterated today that the party had never approached or forced Saiful's father to make any statement.

 

"We would like to clarify here that Azlan Mat Lazim was never a member of PKR. His application to join PKR was not yet approved. I would also like to clarify that Azlan Mat Lazim had asked to meet us and not vice versa.

 

"He himself had offered to make a confession that all allegations against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim were a political conspiracy," Johari said.

 

"Such developments are not uncommon, especially during election season. Even more so is this modus operandi which is synonymous with Umno," he said in a statement.

 

Johari claimed that Azlan had contacted him a few days ago and said that he was "under immense pressure from Umno".

 

"The pressure was also on the family and I believe this retraction is a result of the pressure," he said.

 

In March, Azlan had dropped a bombshell claiming that Anwar's second sodomy charge was part of a conspiracy to discredit the PKR leader, hatched by a special officer in the Prime Minister's Department and that his son was influenced to make the false allegation.