PETALING JAYA: Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said Barisan Nasional’s rivals had misinterpreted his warning that the coalition’s leaders would be dragged to court should they lose in the impending 15th general election.
In clarifying his remarks made at an MIC gathering recently, the BN chairman said he was merely cautioning them about selective prosecution and political persecution, should the coalition’s rivals come to power.
This was something the Pakatan Harapan government had done when it came to power in 2018, he said.
Zahid, who is also Umno president, said there was no need to go into details as to what was said at the gathering as “BN leaders, members and the majority of the people understood the message”.
“So please stop this propaganda,” he said in a Facebook post, referring to former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s comments.
“Such talk does not hide the truth – that BN’s rivals are afraid of their own shadows.”
Mahathir claimed that Zahid had admitted at the gathering that many Umno leaders had done wrong and wanted to win GE15 to save themselves from court cases.
During his speech at the MIC event on Sunday, Zahid warned that other BN leaders could be selectively prosecuted, just as he and his predecessor, Najib Razak, had been by the PH administration.
Zahid said Umno deputy president Mohamad Hasan, MIC president SA Vigneswaran, party deputy president M Saravanan, MCA president Wee Ka Siong and Umno politician Hishammuddin Hussein should not take this issue lightly as they too were supposedly in the crosshairs of their political rivals.
His comments drew laughter from the crowd.
Opposition leaders and MPs alike later took to social media to question whether this was an admission that BN leaders were involved in corruption, calling on the public to make the right decision come GE15. - FMT
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