PETALING JAYA: Several PAS leaders have made cryptic remarks on social media following the appointment of Perlis Bersatu chief Abu Bakar Hamzah as the new Mentri Besar.
“I am not sad but glad (because) now we know their true colours. Betrayal must not go unpunished,” wrote PAS Treasurer Iskandar Abdul Samad on Facebook.
Iskandar later said he would leave it up to the public to interpret his remarks, clarifying that the statement was not aimed at a specific individual or event, and to refer to PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan for official statements.
Meanwhile, Dato Nik Amar suggested that loyalty and friendship were “difficult concepts” for Bersatu in a Facebook post.
Nik Amar later followed up with another cryptic remark, stating, “What has cracked is just waiting to split.”
PAS Central Committee member Nurul Islam Yusoff echoed the sentiment, writing: “Dato Nik Amar is right. Loyalty and friendship are difficult for Bersatu.”
In yet another Facebook post, PAS Information Chief Ahmad Fashli Shaari suggested that “a friend chooses to become an enemy the moment they backstab another.”
However, he did not name any specific individual or party in his post.
Abu Bakar was sworn in as Mentri Besar on Sunday (Dec 28), succeeding PAS’s Mohd Shukri Ramli, who resigned for health reasons on Thursday (Dec 25).
The appointment follows a political crisis in Perlis, where eight Perikatan Nasional assemblymen – three from PAS and five from Bersatu – reportedly submitted statutory declarations (SDs) to withdraw their support for Shukri.
The three PAS assemblymen, Saad Seman (Chuping), Fakhrul Anwar Ismail (Bintong), and Ridzuan Hashim (Guar Sanji), subsequently had their memberships terminated and their seats declared vacant.
Both PAS and Bersatu reportedly submitted one candidate each for the Mentri Besar position.
