Mansor still dodging ‘cocky Lim’ issue

(The Star) – Deputy Chief Minister I Datuk Mansor Othman has continued to avoid responding to the allegation that he had described Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng as a cocky and arrogant man.

“My comments have been twisted in every angle. No comment. People are no longer interested in reading what I say,” he said after opening a seminar for Muslim scholars here yesterday.

He declined to provide an update on the leaked audio recording of the informal PKR meeting.

Mansor had allegedly uttered those words, besides also saying that Lim was also regarded as a tokong (deity) by the people here in the leaked recording, which was later reproduced in an online news report and a TV3 news broadcast.

Asked by a reporter whether he was on good terms with Lim, Mansor merely raised both his hands up in the air while walking away.

“We should be talking about the Budget. People are really interested about the Budget. They are not interested about me anymore,” he said.

Earlier, state PKR vice-chairman Datuk Abdul Halim Hussain confirmed that a report on the alleged leak was sent to the party’s headquarters.