Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak swiped back at PKR president Anwar Ibrahim and his deputy Rafizi Ramli over their remarks at the party congress today.
He chided Anwar's "populist" pledges while mocking Rafizi's plans to put him in jail.
Anwar, had, in his speech earlier today, repeated his past promise to reduce petrol prices the very next day if he ever becomes a prime minister.
He said the previous Pakatan Harapan government could not fulfil this, as he was not the premier.
Najib shot back that this was a recycled pungent (hancing) populist promise.
"Our petrol prices are among the 10 cheapest in the world.
"When he wins, maybe our petrol prices will be cheaper than in Venezuela, maybe," he said in a Facebook post.
Venezuela has the cheapest petrol prices in the world. However, it has also suffered from what economists say is the world's worst economic collapse over the past decade.
Weak and childish
Meanwhile, Rafizi in his speech called on PKR members to lodge police reports against Najib over the latter’s alleged lies.
The former premier countered that this was a weak and childish move from the PKR deputy president.
Najib claimed that Rafizi was seeking backup after failing to rebut his remarks on social media.
The Pekan MP also said that his writings on social media are not lies, and are based on facts.
Further, he said lying on social media was not a crime as long as it was not inciting the people to protest.
"If lying was a crime, Rafizi would have been rotting in jail for 10 years. Who does not know that he is the king of twisted formulas?" Najib said.
He added that he would be making a long posting just for Rafizi and other PKR members to refute him.
Najib has used his Facebook page as a platform to air his views, make criticisms, and propose policies.
He has also been accused of being populist, such as repeatedly pressuring the government to allow Employees Provident Fund withdrawals beyond the first two schemes.
Meanwhile, he has also used his Facebook to perpetuate his version of events regarding the 1MBD scandal, such as insisting that the US$681 million that was transferred into his accounts in 2013 was a donation from the Saudi royal family.
However, investigators in the US and Malaysia have laid out an extensive money trail that shows the monies had actually been misappropriated from 1MDB.
The US$620 million of the funds Najib received were later returned to accounts controlled by fugitive businessperson Jho Low. - Mkini
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