KUALA LUMPUR: PAS leaders have urged Datuk Ambiga Sreenavasan (pic) to break her silence and respond to allegations that she told portal Sarawak Report that the Islamist party had received money from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Party vice-president Idris Ahmad said the former Bar Council president should respond and apologise to PAS for accusing its senior leaders of receiving RM90mil from Najib.
"As a lawyer who is supposedly championing integrity and truth, she needs to respond to these allegations and apologise because this is clearly slander," said the Bukit Gantang MP while speaking to reporters at Parliament grounds on Tuesday.
Kuala Nerus PAS MP Datuk Dr Khairuddin Aman Razali also said the onus is now on Ambiga.
"All this time, PAS has been slandered and our image ruined.
"Ambiga, as a lawyer, has to respond immediately. Was this just a claim or is it the truth?" he said.
A news portal reported that Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown had named Ambiga as a source of information behind allegations that top leaders in PAS had received money from Najib.
According to a defence and counter-claim statement, Rewcastle-Brown said she spoke to the former Bersih chairman in July 2016 regarding Najib, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and PAS.
In a court filing dated Oct 11, Rewcastle-Brown said Ambiga had told the defendant that her sources, whom she said were reliable, estimated that the amount given was around RM90mil.
Rewcastle-Brown's defence was filed in relation to PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang's defamation suit against her in April this year.
Ambiga did not comment on the allegations, merely saying; "I am afraid I am not at liberty to comment on proceedings that are before the UK courts".
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