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Raja Petra Kamarudin: Mahathir brought only 45 signatures. How does RPK know?

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Former Umno member Khairuddin Abu Hassan told FMT that he accompanied Mahathir to the palace, and that the audience was just between the two of them.

How do you know what you said happened, RPK?

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18 September 2016

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Khairuddin slams Raja Petra’s Dr M – Agong tell all as fiction

Former Umno Batu Kawan vice chief Khairuddin Abu Hassan has blasted blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin’s revelations of the meeting between former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad and the Agong as fabrication.

Khairuddin in a statement called Raja Petra a “liar”, claiming that even he was not privy to the details of the Friday meeting despite accompanying Mahathir to the Anak Bukit palace in Alor Setar to have an audience with Yang Di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah.

Raja Petra on his blog had detailed what he claimed were events that transpired in the said meeting, detailing the alleged royal conversation.
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“The meeting on that day was only between the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong and Mahathir without anyone else.

“I admit I accompanied Mahathir to the Anak Bukit palace, but even I do not know the details of the discussion between the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong and Mahathir and I can guarantee no one else knows what was discussed.

“It is laughable that this person by the name of ‘Raja Petra the liar’ who is in the United Kingdom, can know every word of the discussion between the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong and Mahathir,” he said.

Khairuddin demanded Raja Petra return to Malaysia to face him directly instead of making allegations from afar.

He also questioned Raja Petra’s credibility, pointing out the latter had issued a statement of regret after Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle Brown threatened him with a defamation suit.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/356048?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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17 September 2016

Agong questioned the 1.4mil signatures, says Raja Petra

PETALING JAYA: Dr Mahathir Mohamad is reported to have been left fumbling for an answer when questioned by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong about the purported 1.4 million signatures on the Citizens’ Declaration against Prime Minister Najib Razak.

In an article at Malaysia Today, blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin said Mahathir’s audience with Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah on Friday had been “a disaster.”

Raja Petra said that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong had asked about the authenticity of the purported 1.4 million signatures on the Declaration, which petitions the Rulers’ Conference for action to remove the prime minister.
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Raja Petra said Tuanku Abdul Halim had asked whether Mahathir could guarantee that all the signatures were genuine. “Mahathir was clearly not prepared for this,” Raja Petra wrote, and said the former premier was “quite stunned.”

He said Mahathir replied merely that the documents were what had been given to him, to which Tuanku Halim “just gave a wry smile.”

After asking whether Mahathir still felt that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong was under house arrest, “the Agong changed the subject and talked about other things, mostly small talk,” according to Raja Petra.

Raja Petra did not say how he obtained information about what transpired at the audience, which was reported by Malaysiakini to have been a “four-eyed” meeting.

Former Umno member Khairuddin Abu Hassan told FMT that he accompanied Mahathir to the palace, and that “the audience was “just between the two of them”. Mahathir’s special officer Sufi Yusuf also confirmed to FMT that the 91-year-old former prime minister went to the Istana bearing “a set of documents.”

Raja Petra said “Mahathir’s audience was a disaster” and he failed to obtain the Agong’s intervention or involvement in the move to oust Najib.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2016/09/17/raja-petra-agong-questioned-the-1-4mil-signatures/

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