Don’t believe Opposition’s lies,says Hasni

ISKANDAR PUTERI: Voters should not buy into the Opposition lies that a strong Barisan Nasional win in the coming Johor election is meant to free Umno leaders facing court cases, says Datuk Seri Hasni Mohammad.

The Mentri Besar said the Barisan leadership has no intention to get involved in the cases faced by the leaders dubbed as the “court cluster”.

“Our win will not have any bearing on their court cases.

“I have also not been pressured, forced or told by anyone from the court cluster to call for the state polls,” he said while attending an event by MIC yesterday.

Hasni also told the Opposition to stop blaming him for calling the state polls as they could not even run the state when they had a strong majority in GE14.

He said despite a huge majority of 17 seats, the government then still fell.

“What more the present state government which has only a one-seat majority,” he said, while calling out the Opposition as “power crazy” and did not care about the people’s welfare.

Hasni said he wanted representatives from all races in the new state government to ensure everyone was looked after.

MIC president Tan Sri SA Vigneswaran said seat negotiations were still ongoing despite talk that some Umno leaders wanted to contest Kahang and Gambir seats.

The party contested in four seats – Gambir, Kahang, Tenggaroh and Skudai – in GE14.