Nik Mohamad Abduh: I was told to deny recording

KOTA BARU: Nik Mohamad Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz had to deny that it was his voice in the audio recording of the alleged millions of ringgit received from Umno because his party had asked him to.

The Pas central committee member said this in a lengthy explanation that was uploaded to his Facebook account.

Nik Mohamad Abduh said he initially refused to obey the party’s decision and wanted to tell the truth, but claimed that the party had insisted and requested that he deny it.

“It was difficult for me to refuse, but they insisted that I deny it. We must put a stop to the slander, they argued,” he said, adding that at the time, the country was nearing the 14th General Election (GE14).

“Pakatan Harapan was attacking Pas with slander after they failed to find any fault.

“PH could only arm themselves with slander, a weapon that is forbidden in Islam and Pas,” he said.

It was in the midst of facing this difficulty that Nik Mohamad Abduh said he sought an answer from Pas president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang.

He said Hadi later gave his blessings for him to deny it.

“I obeyed and I was happy with the directive,” he said.

“Speaking the truth will set us free. A lie is a prison that will trap us. I chose to come clean.

“I was confident that the content of my speech would be easily understood if the context was understood,” he said.

Since the recording was of a speech he had given at an internal meeting to a select audience, Nik Mohamad Abduh said it was his right to guard the secrecy of the meeting and not to betray it.

Nik Mohamad Abduh was willing to keep the secret behind the voice in the recording, unless a decision was made otherwise by Pas, a court of law and the Malaysian government through investigations by the police or the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.