Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali has defended his claim that a senior minister in Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's cabinet will resign, saying this only shows that Najib's cabinet is not strong.
Referring to the way Najib and his deputy Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has been clamouring to deny or curb the alleged resignation, he said this shows the cabinet is in panic.
"I feel I have achieved my objective to show that the cabinet is not strong.
"In fact, there is still distrust among the ministers (over what is happening in the country).
“There are still those within the cabinet who are not satisfied over the financial and economic situation in the country," Azmin, who is PKR deputy president, told Malaysiakini when met today.
Maintaining that he got the information from a source, Azmin said he only posed the question on Twitter that a senior cabinet minister wants to resign.
But he said he was surprised with the response from Najib and his deputy and others who came out to deny the claim.
Azmin also reiterated he would not reveal who the minister claimed to be resigning is.
This, he said, is because those in Putrajaya would exercise their whims to pressure the minister in question, and that would not be fair.
A fortnight ago Azmin on Twitter asked if it was true that a cabinet minister had resigned.
“Talk is that the minister did not want to be complicit in 1MDB. Follow the developments,” he tweeted, without elaborating.
In an immediate response, Najib challenged Azmin to reveal the said individual to prove he wasn't lying, claiming no such person had indicated about resignation to him.
The next day Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi jumped in the fray claiming the senior minister Azmin Ali was referring to is Foreign Minister Anifah Aman, but said the rumours were untrue.
[More to follow]
-Mkini
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