BUTTERWORTH: Parti Keadilan Rakyat advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim denied yesterday that Datuk Zaid Ibrahim was ever PKR co-ordinator.
He said that he himself had chaired all PKR meetings and there was no record in the minutes of Zaid, the former Federal Territory chairman of the party, being appointed to that position.
What PKR had was a secretariat, and he (Anwar) had acted as co-ordinator at the top level, the opposition leader told reporters here.
Anwar said: “We have repeatedly clarified this, but the media had kept using it (the title for Zaid), and he had through his friends in the media promoted himself as PKR co-ordinator.”
But a month ago, PKR deputy president Dr Syed Husin Ali went through the records and found no such appointment, he added at the distribution of sacrificial meat to the poor in conjunction with Hari Raya Aidiladha yesterday.
Asked to comment on reports that Zaid might set up a new party, the defecto advisor said: “It is up to him …”
Zaid, who withdrew from the contest for deputy president alleging fraud in the election system, confirmed that he was quitting PKR and would explain all at a news conference yesterday. — Bernama