The prime minister's press secretary Tengku Sarifuddin Tengku Ahmad has branded Kluang MP Liew Chin Tong's analysis about his boss as "fake news" and asked the DAP MP to focus on his party's "serious predicament" with regard to using its logo in the next general election.
"Liew Chin Tong should stop pushing what is obviously fake news, smears and outright lies about the government.
"He should be more concerned about the serious predicament of his party, DAP.
"DAP do not know whether they will be allowed to use their infamous rocket logo in the coming general election," Tengku Sarifuddin said in a statement tonight.
He added that the Registrar of Societies does not currently recognise the validity of DAP's central executive committee.
"This is because DAP's party elections are alleged to be gerrymandered and an undemocratic fix up by Penang Official 1 and his father to perpetuate that family's half-century long dictatorship over DAP.
"This means that DAP’s secretary-general, Penang Official 1, is in no position to authorise anything in the party as he is not legally recognised.
"In fact, DAP’s entire leadership is under threat and could be declared illegal for their alleged election manipulation," he said.
The term "Penang Official 1" was coined by Tengku Sarifuddin in reference to Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng as a counter to "Malaysian Official 1", which the US Department of Justice (DOJ) claimed was a beneficiary of allegedly stolen 1MDB funds and which the opposition has used as fodder.
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Abdul Rahman Dahlan had confirmed that "Malaysian Official 1" is Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.
Najib denied any wrongdoing or taking public funds for personal gain.
Meanwhile, Lim is facing two charges of graft which he claimed were politically motivated.
Tengku Sarifuddin's statement against Liew came just a day after the DAP political education bureau chief made a scathing analysis of Najib's position, claiming that he was in a weakened state despite initial proclamations that he was "unsinkable".
The prime minister's aide said Liew and his colleagues should focus on DAP's own internal matters, such as asking "Penang Official 1" to resign, getting party supremo Lim Kit Siang to quit and installing DAP's maverick Kepong MP Tan Seng Giaw as the party's new leader.
"If Liew Chin Tong refuses, he should just keep quiet and refrain from parroting the tired old smears of a tired old dictator.
"We are now in the 21st century. Dictators are relics of the past – although the opposition, even though it claims to speak for democracy, now has not one but two dictators leading it," added Tengku Sarifuddin.- Mkini
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