PKR deputy presidential candidate Rafizi Ramli has claimed that his opponent Mohamed Azmin Ali travelled to Turkey to ask Anwar Ibrahim for the party president post.
According to Rafizi, Azmin had told president-elect Anwar, who was in Turkey to receive medical treatment, to step aside and allow him to become the president of PKR instead.
"I can say here that he (Azmin) went to Turkey to meet with Anwar himself.
"Anwar was about to go for surgery, and he (Azmin) went to meet him to say 'You don't have to contest, let me become the party president.'
"If this story wasn't true, I would not say it live like this," he said during his ceramah at the Reformasi 20 Tahun programme in Kota Bharu last night.
Rafizi said he made the revelation to provide context to his rival terming critics who were not present at the birth of the 1998 Reformasi movement "little children."
"When the so-called 'young ones' question things like this, they say we are new from the forest, new from the estate.
"Now let me ask you, Azmin; you met with Anwar personally in Turkey to ask to become the president, is it wrong if other friends ask why you could not support Anwar as president from the beginning?
"Is it because Anwar becoming the party president is one of the steps to ensure he becomes prime minister?" he said during the ceramah.
Early last month, Anwar won the PKR presidency uncontested.
The PKR party polls takes place next month, with results expected to be announced in November.
When contacted, Azmin's political secretary Hilman Idham denied the allegation, saying that it would be "impossible" for the meeting to have gone as Rafizi claimed.
Malaysiakini has also attempted an aide of Anwar for comment. - Mkini
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