Pahang MB refuses to apologise over gesture

Pahang MB refuses to apologise over gesture

Pahang Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob, defying opposition demands that he apologise for making a lewd hand-gesture in public, has said he has done a lot for the people and that the opposition has no means to run him down.

He also accused the opposition of blowing the issue out of proportion and added that they had run out of ideas to undermine him.

"They will pick up on anything to run me down... even a small slip on my part," he said, referring to the lewd hand-gesture which he made on nomination day for the Sanggang by-election last Tuesday.

"That is their attitude and it is not something extraordinary. This is a sign of frustrated people," he told reporters after a dinner attended by Chinese voters from the Sanggang constituency.

Also present were Umno secretary-general and former Pahang Mentri Besar, Tan Sri Mohamed Khalil Yaakob, Pahang MCA chairman Datuk Chan Kong Choy and the Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate for the Sanggang by-election, Mr Redzwan Harun.

Datuk Adnan, who is spearheading the BN campaign in the constituency, reiterated that he just could not tolerate it when Parti Islam (PAS) supporters shouted nasty remarks like Hancur Barisan and Mampus Barisan (destruction and death to Barisan).

"I just reacted to what they did. My action shows that I am a simple man. Being a Mentri Besar, I never feel superior," he said.

PAS supporters have denied that they provoked the Mentri Besar by showing vulgar signs to him first.

Asked to comment on this, he said: "They will deny everything because they are a bunch of hypocrites."

In another development, Pahang Parti Keadilan Nasional Youth chief Zakaria Hamid has filed a police report against the Mentri Besar.

He has alleged that the Mentri Besar committed an act of indecent behaviour on nomination day.

Asked to comment on this, Datuk Adnan said: "This is a democratic country. They can lodge a report anywhere they like, even on the moon."

When told that the opposition was determined to drag him to court, the Mentri Besar said he would let the law take its own course.