Anwar: I am not man in audio clips
KLANG: PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has denied that he was the voice behind three short audio clips lambasting Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and PKR deputy president Datuk Seri Azmin Ali.
“That is not the right way to answer. It is not my voice. I do not use harsh language.
“Barua is not my language. I have heard (the audio clips). As fierce as I am, I do not use the word barua,” he said after delivering a speech at a Ceramah Perdana event in Bandar Puteri here, as part of the Sungai Kandis by-election campaign trail for candidate Mohd Zawawi Ahmad Mughni.
Anwar said he did not know if Barisan Nasional was behind the audio clips, which have been widely circulated on social media, and urged the people not to be influenced by slander.
“I did not give any speech after the Khazanah (Nasional Bhd appointments) were announced, except in Sungai Kandis. There was no speech before that. I was in Turkey.”
He dismissed the suggestion that the act was an agenda to tear Pakatan Harapan apart.
“I don’t think we are stupid enough to be that gullible. But then, we just have to deny because it is not true. There is no basis in that.”
Anwar was asked about the audio clips, in which a man who sounded like him is heard criticising Dr Mahathir for appointing himself as Khazanah chairman.
The man in one of the audio clips also urged Rafizi Ramli to go head to head with Azmin, who was described as Dr Mahathir’s stooge, to wrest the PKR deputy post.
One audio clip said Dr Mahathir had accused Anwar of sodomy and lost RM30 billion in the foreign exchange scandal.