Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin today mocked Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and PKR president Anwar Ibrahim, who are accused of having clandestine ties following the emergence of an audio clip of the duo's alleged phone conversation.
Speaking to reporters in Kuala Lumpur, Hamzah (above) made the remark when answering a question regarding police reports on the audio clip.
"(The police) will definitely investigate all reports they receive. They will investigate the authenticity (of the clip) and whether (the conversation) took place.
"If the conversation did not take place, then this (audio clip) is mere slander. If it is true, and I have heard the clip, then Zahid's admission that Anwar is his teacher, is true.
"Is it wrong for Anwar to be Zahid's teacher? Why should they both be upset? I find it strange," Hamzah said.
The audio clip had has been linked to Anwar and Zahid meeting up after the Umno general assembly, which took place at the end of March.
At one point, the voice resembling Anwar congratulated the other person in the audio recording, to which the voice resembling Zahid responded and credited the other speaker as his teacher.
Both Zahid and Anwar have publicly claimed that the audio clip is fake and that it was the work of their political enemies.
Apart from Hamzah, other Perikatan Nasional figures and some Umno figures have used the video clip as political ammunition against Zahid, accusing him of consorting with the party's enemies.
This is because the Umno's national delegates assembly as well as the supreme council had decided that the party will not work with Anwar or his ally DAP.
Meanwhile, Hamzah, who is the Bersatu secretary-general, said there was nothing wrong with Umno cooperating with PKR.
"Is it wrong for Umno to cooperate with PKR? If it is wrong, it is not my problem.
"If the conversation never took place, thus it is not true that Umno is consorting with PKR.
"So there are two issues here: Firstly, did the conversation take place? Secondly, was the content of the conversation true?" - Mkini
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