KLANG: 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 Mohamed 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.
Anwar was met after delivering a speech at a PKR organised Ceramah Perdana at Bandar Puteri here, as part of the Sungai Kandis by-election campaign trail for candidate Mohd Zawawi Ahmad Mughni.
Anwar said he does not know if Barisan Nasional was behind the audio clips which have been widely circulated on social media and urged the people not be influenced by slander.
“I do not know (if its slander by BN). It is part of the game pending the imminent party elections. That is very unhealthy. They should fight in the open.
“I did not give any speech after the Khazanah (appointment) was announced except in Sungai Kandis. There was no speech before that. I was in Turkey,” added Anwar.
The PKR de facto leader also dismissed the suggestion that the act is 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 on the audio clips in which a man sounding like Anwar is heard criticising Dr Mahathir for appointing himself as Khazanah chairman.
The man in the audio clip 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.
The audio clip also said that Dr Mahathir had accused Anwar of sodomy and lost RM30 billion in the forex scandal.