Leiking wants Noh Omar to apologise to Sultan

The MP finds it perplexing that the Federation is now led by political leaders who can make up words he had never spoken.

KUALA LUMPUR: Umno Supreme Council member Noh Omar should apologise to the Sultan of Selangor for dragging the Ruler into his political agenda.

Penampang MP Darrell Leiking, under fire after allegedly saying the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) was led by extremists, was commenting on a statement by Noh Omar.

“It’s perplexing the Federation was now led by political leaders who can make up words I had never spoken,” he lamented. “They can create words and unilaterally interpret what I had asked and posted in Facebook.”

He added that he had never made any reference to the Sultan of Selangor. “We know the Sultan is above politics.”

Noh Omar, and all those who have been twisting and harping on his posting should in fact apologise to the Sultan of Selangor, Leiking demanded. “They are dragging the Sultan into their political agendas.”

“They are abusing the Sultan’s name in justifying their attacks over my posting.”

Noh Omar had earlier said Leiking’s remarks in an online posting was an insult to Jais and to Islam. By extension, he claimed, Leiking’s remarks were also tantamount to insulting the Sultan of Selangor, also the head of the Islamic religion in the state besides being head of state.

Noh Omar had also demanded that PKR President Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali take action against Leiking.

Leiking, resuming, pledged that he would continue “defending and ensuring the continuity and makeup of the secular Federation of Malaysia.”

“I would like to remind all those who are twisting my Facebook question that I am a Sabahan and Member of Parliament from Borneo,” said Leiking. “I cannot ignore what is happening in the Federation.”

Keadilan has made it an obligation for all party members to uphold the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63), he reminded. “Noh Omar asking my Party President to take action against me, for speaking up to defend the Federation of Malaysia, was absolutely tainted with the politics of hate and lies.”

Leiking also charged that Noh Omar had totally failed to comprehend MA63.