KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 5 ― Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi insisted today that efforts were ongoing to topple the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) from power through undemocratic but maintained that he could not show proof of anti-government activities due to security reasons.
Ahmad Zahid was responding to Temerloh MP Nasrudin Hassan, who asked the minister to state the proof to back up past allegations of a plot against the ruling federal coalition said to have affected investor confidence in Malaysia.
“However, proofs on the existence of such efforts cannot be revealed for security reasons and the police are still carrying out their due diligence on this matter,” Ahmad Zahid, who is also deputy prime minister, said in a written parliamentary reply.
In his speech to Ampang Umno delegates in August, Ahmad Zahid had claimed an Umno leader, whom he declined to name, was trying to get lawmakers from both sides of the political divide to sign a statutory declaration (SD) to show that they had the majority voice to move a no-confidence vote in the Dewan Rakyat.
Ahmad Zahid claimed that the SD was already prepared and needed the signatures of not just the 87 opposition MPs,in Parliament but also one from BN.
He claimed that 37 BN MPs were being targeted for the SD.
Attention then shifted to then deputy prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin who was later dropped in a Cabinet reshuffle in late July, after openly criticising 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the state-owned investment company mooted by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
However, Muhyiddin told Umno delegates in Semporna, Sabah that month that he would be “stupid” to want to topple the BN government he helped to build.
