PETALING JAYA: Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin does not dare return to Malaysia and face his sedition trial, a former PKR supreme council member claimed.Lokman Noor Adam, who is currently an Umno Youth exco member, alleged that Raja Petra tended to post articles on his news portal without verifying facts and now that he is facing several civil suits, he had to flee the country.
“He is the kind of person who often criticises without considering if it is true or not. That is why his news portal churns out such allegations,” he said when contacted yesterday.
Lokman Noor, who has known Raja Petra for more than 10 years, cited an example in 2004, when he was lambasted by Raja Petra in the news portal.
“Raja Petra reprimanded me in his news portal when I exposed the alleged wrongdoings of senior PKR leaders back then. Later, when former PKR Youth chief Ezam Mohd Nor joined Umno, he (Raja Petra) changed his stance and praised me for my earlier criticism.
“This shows that he is not consistent,” he said.
In 2004, PKR expelled Lokman for allegedly bringing disrepute to the party by making wild claims against leaders through the media, wanting to rejoin Umno and getting party members to follow him.
On another matter, Lokman Noor said Barisan Nasional’s recent big victory in the Bagan Pinang by-election showed that the Prime Minister’s hard work had paid off.
“The Opposition will give all kinds of negative comments to divert attention from the fact that the people’s support is back with Barisan,” he said.
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