Anwar: No plot to stop me from becoming PM

KUALA LUMPUR: PKR leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has denied there is a conspiracy to stop him from becoming the next prime minister.

He said there was no basis to link Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Council of Eminent Persons head Tun Daim Zainuddin and PKR deputy president Datuk Seri Azmin Ali to such a plot.

And he reiterated there were no problems between him and Dr Mahathir, whom he is expected to succeed as prime minister in a few years’ time.

“I had advised Kapar MP Datuk Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid that such allegations (about a plot) are baseless and I told him not to repeat the statement.

“Let him settle. I do not know whether he had written it or not but I had asked him to make the correction. It is baseless to associate Dr Mahathir, Daim and Azmin’s name (with the allegation),” he said after the proceedings in chambers before High Court Judicial Commissioner Faizah Jamaludin yesterday.

Anwar was in court over his defamation suit against former Permatang Pauh Umno candidate Datuk Dr Mazlan Ismail, private broadcaster TV3, and Utusan Melayu (M) Berhad.

Mazlan and TV3 proposed to settle the suit out of court, Bernama reported.

Anwar was asked to comment on Abdullah Sani’s claim that Dr Mahathir, Azmin and Daim are among individuals conspiring to prevent Anwar from becoming the next prime minister.

Abdullah Sani made the allegations on Aug 12 while campaigning for Rafizi Ramli, who is contesting the deputy president’s post in the PKR polls.

Daim when met at a press conference here after the 100 days mandate of the CEP yesterday, said Pakatan Harapan had long decided Anwar would be the next prime minister.

“So Anwar will be the next one,” said Daim who laughed off the conspiracy allegations.