FRIENDLY OFFER BUT OF A GOVERNMENT POST? YOU TELL ME......
I HAVE been trying to make some sense from this merry-go-round and so far have not been successful. I have read all the statements but have not been able to understand the situation.
I do know however that former Penang PKR Wanita head Aminah Abdullah has lodged a report and also submitted what she said was an audio recording and that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has met her on her claim that two PKR members had offered her goodies if she agreed to rejoin the party after the Penanti by-election.
She claimed to have been offered a nice pile of cash and a high-level post in Penang and told the press that she only decided to lodge a report after being challenged by Penang PKR head Zahrain Mohamed Hashim. If the recording is authentic it wouldn't be too difficult to determine if anyone had indeed tried to grease her, wouldn't it?
The latest is that Zahrain has indicated that PKR will pursue legal action against Aminah for making baseless accusations against the party she quit in mid-2007. But PKR election director Saifuddin Nasution has admitted that two men in fact met Aminah and that the two did make her some offers. The problem is Saifuddin insists the offers were personal in nature and were made in the spirit of a close relationship with her. Also talking about a legal suit was one of the men who met her for a few hours -- PKR supreme council member Cheah Kah Peng.
The statement by Cheah didn't appear to clear the confusion. Rather it sounded more like a defensive line which also appeared to try and discredit Aminah for actually recording their conversation on the quiet and "thus in bad taste and with the intention of framing him and another bloke."
What I'm trying to figure out and make some sense of is how could a supreme council member of a party and an aide to a state executive councillor be so dumb to make such offers in a personal capacity? And can anyone now say that the offers were personal in nature? How could that be when one involves a senior post in the state government of which PKR is a member?
If indeed the offers were made and if Aminah's recording is genuine and not tampered with, is there any basis to try and drag her to court and say that she had accused something slanderous against her former party?
I see what's happening to PKR as another clear example of the lack of leadership in the party. It reaffirms that PKR is a party with little stated political purpose vis-a-vis the national perspective. It is a party that hasn't got down to focusing on doing the needful to chart its course towards the next general election and possibly beyond, as part of the federal administration. It seems to me more a party that looks its best when in a confrontation with Umno and the Barisan Nasional but no more.
I do know however that former Penang PKR Wanita head Aminah Abdullah has lodged a report and also submitted what she said was an audio recording and that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has met her on her claim that two PKR members had offered her goodies if she agreed to rejoin the party after the Penanti by-election.
She claimed to have been offered a nice pile of cash and a high-level post in Penang and told the press that she only decided to lodge a report after being challenged by Penang PKR head Zahrain Mohamed Hashim. If the recording is authentic it wouldn't be too difficult to determine if anyone had indeed tried to grease her, wouldn't it?
The latest is that Zahrain has indicated that PKR will pursue legal action against Aminah for making baseless accusations against the party she quit in mid-2007. But PKR election director Saifuddin Nasution has admitted that two men in fact met Aminah and that the two did make her some offers. The problem is Saifuddin insists the offers were personal in nature and were made in the spirit of a close relationship with her. Also talking about a legal suit was one of the men who met her for a few hours -- PKR supreme council member Cheah Kah Peng.
The statement by Cheah didn't appear to clear the confusion. Rather it sounded more like a defensive line which also appeared to try and discredit Aminah for actually recording their conversation on the quiet and "thus in bad taste and with the intention of framing him and another bloke."
What I'm trying to figure out and make some sense of is how could a supreme council member of a party and an aide to a state executive councillor be so dumb to make such offers in a personal capacity? And can anyone now say that the offers were personal in nature? How could that be when one involves a senior post in the state government of which PKR is a member?
If indeed the offers were made and if Aminah's recording is genuine and not tampered with, is there any basis to try and drag her to court and say that she had accused something slanderous against her former party?
I see what's happening to PKR as another clear example of the lack of leadership in the party. It reaffirms that PKR is a party with little stated political purpose vis-a-vis the national perspective. It is a party that hasn't got down to focusing on doing the needful to chart its course towards the next general election and possibly beyond, as part of the federal administration. It seems to me more a party that looks its best when in a confrontation with Umno and the Barisan Nasional but no more.
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