Lim Kit Siang has claimed that BN strategic communications department director Abdul Rahman Dahlan has revealed himself as the hand behind Umno's “ninja assassin” Wee Ka Siong.
He accused Abdul Rahman of providing the MCA deputy president with the script for the “fictitious RM20 billion Penang undersea tunnel scandal”.
“I suggested that Wee should announce that he would contest in one of the three MCA parliamentary seats in Penang if he is totally convinced of his discovery of an RM20 billion undersea tunnel scandal in Penang, which until yesterday he was the sole MCA/BN/minister/MP to know about.
“Wee had been making almost daily attacks on the Penang state government and Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng on the undersea tunnel, but I always suspected Wee was not so 'original' as to able himself to concoct the RM20 billion undersea tunnel scandal but was only reading out the script by his Umno handlers who have designated the role of 'ninja assassin' for him to play.
“To character-assassinate the image, reputation and integrity of the state government and Guan Eng so as to divert attention from Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's 1MDB scandal,” he said.
Lim was responding to Abdul Rahman's statement that using silly names like “ninja assassin” against Wee was unbecoming of a respected elder politician.
He also said the veteran DAP leader should take his son's place if Guan Eng was afraid of facing Wee when he holds a forum on the Penang tunnel this Friday in the chief minister's stronghold of Bagan.
However, Lim regarded Abdul Rahman's statement as a confession.
“He is the handler, feeding and giving Wee the script to launch a ceaseless attack on the Penang chief minister and state government to divert attention from the 1MDB scandal.
“This is why Wee had run crying to Abdul Rahman complaining about the attacks he is getting for his 'ninja assassin' role, and this is why it is Abdul Rahman and not Wee who replied to my statement yesterday,” he added.
Lim said he had raised several questions about Wee’s role as Umno's “ninja assassin”, which the latter had not been able to answer.
“For instance, I pointed out the extraordinary scenario where Wee tried to surface as an anti-corruption warrior in Malaysia, when he had not dared make a single squeak in the past three years when Malaysia was rocked by the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal,
“Instead, since June 2014, although MCA had been reduced into a 7/11 political party in the 2013 general election, Wee together with two other MCA leaders had enjoyed the perks and privileges of cabinet ministers of a kleptocracy under Najib,” he added.
Lim also asked if Abdul Rahman was prepared to answer on behalf of Wee as to why he has become Umno's “ninja assassin”?
“It is most unthinkable that an MCA deputy president, the No 2 leader in MCA, taking directives from the BN strategic communications director who is only an Umno supreme council member and Sabah Umno secretary – and of equal rank as Wee as a minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.
“Is it any wonder that MCA has been reduced to a 7/11 political party, and why the three top MCA leaders hide in constituencies with Malay voter majorities and depend on Umno's Malay voters to get into parliament and the cabinet?
“If Wee is not prepared to announce that he is totally convinced of his discovery of a RM20 billion undersea tunnel scandal in Penang and will contest in one of the three MCA parliamentary seats in Penang to highlight and convince Penang voters the scandal and the need to save Penang, then he should ask his handler to replace him at the so-called forum on Friday,” he added. -Mkini
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