KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 ― PKR Youth chief Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad wants PAS to come clean on its confusing statements over the names it submitted to the Selangor palace for consideration as the next mentri besar, saying the people in the state deserve to know the truth.
The Seri Setia assemblyman noted the Islamist party's secretary-general, Datuk Mustafa Ali, has been issuing statements at odds with not only the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) consensus reached last month, but also conflict with his previous remarks.
“Why is it that the latest statement says one PAS name and two Keadilan names were submitted? Does this not breach the understanding that the Selangor Mentri Besar candidate should be a Keadilan assemblyman?
“Why does the PAS secretary-general not want to confirm the names of the candidates sent? Are the names of the Keadilan candidates submitted this time different from PAS's decision on 17 August 2014?” he asked in a statement tonight.
Nik Nazmi questioned too Mustafa's recent admission of an earlier letter in which three PAS leaders were nominated, exists.
“It's important for Selangorians to get an explanation so that all confusions and questions are answered,” the PKR lawmaker said.
Nik Nazmi's statement comes in the wake of a new twist to the political drama over who will be picked to replace Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim as mentri besar of Malaysia's most-developed state.
The DAP and PKR have been steadfast in their decision to nominate only PKR president, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah for the post, despite a royal order from the Selangor sultan asking the three PR parties to nominate more than two names each.
But PAS, in defiance of a PR presidential council decision on August 17, sent in three names yesterday.
Mustafa told PAS-controlled paper, Harakah Daily today that the party had sent three names to the Selangor palace for consideration.
He refused to disclose the names, only saying that one was from PAS while the other two were from PKR.
However, news portal Malaysiakini cited anonymous sources in its report tonight, saying that PAS had offered the names of its own representatives and none from PKR, sending the whole plot deeper into the shadows.
