The PAS leadership appears to be Najib Abdul Razak’s last line of defence now that even Umno leaders are beginning to distance themselves from the former prime minister, said DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang.
He said apart from the acting Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, there is “thunderous silence” from the other party leaders like Umno vice-president Hishammuddin Hussein Onn and the youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin on the 1MDB scandal.
Ahmad Zahid yesterday said that all quarters should respect the ongoing MACC probe against Najib as long as it was conducted appropriately “within the appropriate hours”.
In a statement today, Kit Siang said in sharp contrast, Abdul Hadi Awang’s PAS leadership has rushed to Najib’s defence with its lawyer criticising newly-appointed MACC chief commissioner Mohd Shukri Abdull's decision to reveal details related to the 1MDB investigation in 2015.
The PAS lawyer, Wan Zainuddin Wan Musa had said the statements were prejudiced against the former premier and would create the perception that there was political interference in the case before this.
“This is a most shocking position to come from Hadi’s PAS leadership. The reasons why Hadi’s PAS leadership is so enamoured by Najib’s kleptocratic premiership have yet to be revealed but Malaysians will not forget that Hadi was hoping that his PAS leadership would be the ‘king-maker’ to prop up Najib’s kleptocratic regime, if the 14th general election had resulted in a hung Parliament with PAS winning some 40 parliamentary seats.” said the Gelang Patah MP.
Lim said Shukri’s tell-all press conference was quite unorthodox but in the extraordinary circumstances of the scale and “moral turpitude” of the 1MDB scandal, he fully supported Shukri’s unorthodox action.
“What have Najib and Hadi got to hide?” he added. - Mkini
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