Penang PKR will not reveal findings

(NST) – Penang Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) has decided not to make public the findings of its investigations into the leaked minutes of a meeting where its chief, Datuk Mansor Othman, was caught on tape calling Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng a “cocky, arrogant tokong (deity)”.

Asked if the party would ever make an announcement about the investigations or whether actions had been taken against the person who leaked the minutes, state deputy PKR vice-chairman Datuk Abdul Halim Hussain said:

“There is an internal inquiry. We are not going to comment about this matter further.

“Comments can be blown out of proportion,” he said yesterday.

Halim was quoted in news reports late last month that the outcome of the investigation had been passed to the head of the party’s disciplinary board, Datuk Dr Tan Kee Kwong.

It has been almost two months since Mansor made headlines for calling Lim names and alleging the party planned to rule Penang on its own after the next general election.

Although PKR’s disciplinary board had reportedly reached an outcome in its investigations, nothing had been revealed to the press.

It was reported in late August that a blog called “Gelagat Anwar” had published the leaked minutes of a meeting chaired by Mansor.

The meeting was to discuss seat allocations for PKR’s Chinese candidates in Penang for the next general election. 

Mansor had denied calling Lim arrogant when the news came out, explaining that he meant well when labeling him a “tokong” but late last month, TV3 aired an audio clip of what Mansor had said during the meeting.

He had then admitted to saying those words but claimed that he was responding to “leading” questions by those present at the meeting.