‘Who are they to stop me from campaigning in PD?’

Kapar MP Abdullah Sani Abd Hamid has vowed to campaign for Anwar Ibrahim at the upcoming Port Dickson by-election despite being “blacklisted” by the local chapter of Bersatu.

"It would be a feat to stop me. Who are they to put me on the 'blacklist'? Are they the police? I don't need to respond to them," he said when contacted.

Abdullah Sani, a staunch ally of Anwar, was responding to news reports that the Port Dickson Bersatu division did not want him or PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli to join Anwar's campaign.

Port Dickson Bersatu argued this was because the duo had of late made scurrilous allegations against top Bersatu leaders.

Abdullah Sani told Malaysiakini that Malaysia was a democratic country and he had a right to speak his mind.

He said Umno supreme council member Nazri Abdul Aziz, too, had pledged to join Anwar's campaign despite having a long history of attacking Mahathir. Yet, Port Dickson Bersatu did not seem to mind about that.

Abdullah Sani said there was nothing wrong in him speaking up on the need for Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) and his opposition to the appointment of disgraced former police chief Abdul Rahim Noor as the government's facilitator for the southern Thailand peace talks.

"I am not a 'yes man'. I am talking about facts and reality... There is no need (for Bersatu) to issue threats," he said.

He said the only place he cannot campaign was in Sabah and Sarawak where he is banned.

"Port Dickson is on my side of the country, how am I not to join the campaign? God willing, I will be there," he vowed. - Mkini