The Singapore daily said readers had taken issue with Dr Mahathir’s description of his first visit to the republic as prime minister in 1981, which he said in his book had left him feeling “sorely used”.
Dr Mahathir wrote that he was not properly greeted at the Singaporean Prime Minister’s Office during his trip and was not given a state dinner.
The trained doctor also said he met with then-president Dr Benjamin Sheares — his professor in medical college — and spoke for 20 minutes before an aide said Dr Sheares had another appointment.
Readers, however, pointed out that Dr Sheares had died in May 1981, seven months before Dr Mahathir’s visit in December.
Malaysia’s prime minister of 22 years clarified yesterday that he had met Dr Sheares at another meeting, before his official visit to Singapore.
“People do forget things, you know,” Dr Mahathir told reporters in Cyberjaya yesterday.
Politicians from both sides of the divide have accused Dr Mahathir of lying in his memoirs, “A Doctor In The House: The Memoirs of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad”, which took eight years to write.
Former rival Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah called Dr Mahathir a “political liar” for claiming in the book that the Kelantan prince had engaged in vote-buying during the 1987 Umno election.
Tengku Razaleigh, better known as Ku Li, had lead “Team B” in the fractious party polls which resulted in the High Court declaring Umno illegal.
Former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim similarly called Dr Mahathir a “blatant liar” with “selective amnesia” for claiming that the former had approach four women for sex while in office.
Dr Mahathir had also claimed that his former protégé had never denied accusations of sodomy, choosing only to focus on his alleged affairs with women. - Malaysian Insider
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