Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim wants Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to withdraw claims that RM100 million was allegedly offered to an Umno MP to cross over and join Pakatan Rakyat. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, December 2, 2014.
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today demanded that Umno president and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak apologise and withdraw claims that RM100 million was allegedly offered to an Umno MP to cross over and join Pakatan Rakyat (PR).
The opposition leader said the "false allegation" was the subject of a defamation suit against Kimanis MP Datuk Seri Anifah Aman, but Najib chose to make a "scurrilous and slanderous" attack against him and PR at the Umno general assembly last week.
"Despite the fact that the trial is ongoing, Najib chose to repeat Anifah's baseless allegation that one Ishak Ismail approached him on my behalf and made such an offer," he said in referring to former KFC deputy executive chairman Datuk Ishak Ismail.
Ishak yesterday denied offering Anifah RM100 million to join Pakatan and to bring along 10 Sabah lawmakers with him.
He also challenged the foreign minister to repeat the accusation outside court, adding that he will sue the minister if such "slanderous remarks" were made again.
Anwar cited Ishak’s statement and demanded that Najib retract his "false statement" and apologise to him and the coalition.
Najib said based on the reports quoting Anifah, Pakatan participated in the "mother of all corruption".
"This is so that they can form a government. Isn't this the mother of all corruption?" Najib said when winding up the debates at the Umno general assembly on Saturday.
Anifah said a businessman offered RM100 million to lure 10 Sabah MPs to join Pakatan’s move to topple the Barisan Nasional government in 2008.
He testified in a defamation suit brought by Anwar against him in May 2009, that the offer was made by Ishak at the Hilton Kuala Lumpur hotel.
- TMI
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