‘IMMEDIATELY’ SACK HAZIQ? WHEN AZMIN DOESN’T EVEN DARE TAKE LIE DETECTOR TEST OVER GAY SEX VIDEO? EMBOLDENED BY MAHATHIR’S BACKING, ZURAIDA STARTS TO PARADE HERSELF AS ‘DICTATOR WOMAN’ – IN BID TO SHIELD ALLY AZMIN

PKR vice president Zuraida Kamaruddin has come under fire for suggesting that she would have immediately sacked Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz, who made allegations of sexual impropriety against a senior party leader if she was the party president.

PKR Youth secretary Ahmad Syukri Che Ab Razab (photo, above) noted that her statement came after the PKR political bureau, of which Zuraida was part of, decided to first issue a show cause letter against the Santubong PKR Youth chief.

“The fact is, Zuraida was part of the PKR political bureau, which unanimously agreed with the decision with regards to Haziq.

“If she was involved in the decision during the meeting but later decides to publicly belittle it, then it shows (her) discipline is of poor quality,” he said in a statement today.

Syukri said as a party that values justice, the PKR political bureau was allowing due process so that Haziq can give an explanation before further action is taken.

“Don’t become emotional and act on your own whims so much that Zuraida forgets this fundamental principle.

“It is inaccurate to say that the party has apparently failed to act when the action has only just been initiated.

“Therefore, I urge Zuraida to remain calm and respect the party’s decision. Every leader has the responsibility to show a good example to party members,” he said.

Syukri also stressed that the decision is not solely by PKR president Anwar Ibrahim but was done through consensus by the political bureau.

After a sex video showing two men engaging in sexual acts was circulated by anonymous numbers on Whatsapp, Haziq emerged to claim that he was one of the men in the video and his partner was PKR deputy president Mohamad Azmin Ali.

Azmin had dismissed the allegation as character assassination intended to end his political career.

Zuraida, a key Azmin ally, said Haziq was lucky that she was not the PKR president.

“If I was the party president, I would have sacked him already.

“I asked the party to fire him but it wanted to follow due process, then so be it,” she had told journalists in Putrajaya earlier today.

Azmin pans Lokman for lie detector test suggestion

PKR deputy president Azmin Ali (above) today lambasted Umno supreme council member Lokman Noor Adam over the latter’s challenge for him to take a lie detector test.

Branding Lokman as a “cicak mengkarung” (lizard), he said it was not up to Lokman how investigations should be carried out into the sex video scandal that allegedly implicated him.

“This is the problem with Umno. He is the one who spreads lies (fitnah), and he also wants to be the prosecutor, the investigator, and the judge. He wants to determine everything,” Azmin told reporters after attending the Economic Affairs Ministry’s Hari Raya function in Kuala Lumpur today.

Azmin was commenting on Lokman’s call for him to take a polygraph test to prove his innocence in the sex video clips leaked to the media, which featured a man resembling Azmin

Santubong PKR Youth chief Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz (above) had claimed that he was one of the people in the videos and his partner was Azmin.

Azmin, who is also economic affairs minister, has categorically denied the allegation and called the issue a plot to kill his political career.

He said he had taken legal steps based on his lawyers’ advice, including having a qazaf (false accusation) report lodged with the authorities, and given his full cooperation to the police.

When pressed by reporters on whether he would take up the challenge, Azmin brushed the question aside by asking if Lokman is the new attorney-general.

Malaysiakini has sent a request to Lokman for his comments.

– M’kini