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Maria J. Dass and Timothy Leonard, THE SUN Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yesterday dismissed talks by cynics that his talk of taking over the government was just rhetoric, saying: "Insyallah, not long, we will be in Putrajaya."
Speaking at the closing of the 5th PKR national congress at the Malawati Stadium here, he said: "There will not be any buying (of MPs), there will not be any threats, there will not be any trips to Taipei to learn farming. That is not us, those are the actions of bankrupt politicians." Speaking of the exploitation of the indigenous people of Sabah and Sarawak, especially the ancestral land exploitation issues, he said: "We are giving their leader the option - are they going to continue supporting a system that insults the intelligence of their own people?" "In the name of God, I trust the wisdom of my people, all Malaysians." He said all this will be achieved by the power of prayers. "Don’t underestimate the power of prayers because we can plan, we can work but the power of the prayers of people of all faiths should not be underestimated." "We all believe in what is right and we leave it to God, and in a short time, hopefully, we will achieved what we want," Anwar said. Anwar had told a public rally on Saturday that Sarawak will be their next battleground before the Pakatan Rakyat takes over the federal government He asked the party's leaders to make weekly trips to Sarawak to meet its aim to unseat the Barisan Nasional (BN) government in the state. He stated this when explaining to those present why the PR could not meet its deadline of Sept 16 to unseat the federal government. He further said it (taking over of federal government) did not materialise because a letter to negotiate the matter sent to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was not entertained by him. Another reason, he said, was that BN MPs wanting to defect had laid a condition that their names not be revealed until they were ready to do so. His call to take Sarawak however has got his cynics pooh-poohing his claims, Bernama reported. In Kuching, Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib questioned Anwar's credibility, especially when his Sept 16 deadline to form a new overnment did not materialise. "I don't want to comment on people like that. Well, his (Anwar's) credibilty is not that high when he said Sept 16 is his target date which he promised to be the date to form a new government," Taib, who is also state BN chairman. In Kota Kinabalu, Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek regarded PKR's aim to capture Sarawak next year as yet another delution of Mat Jenin, a dreamer in a popular Malay fable. He said after PKR failed to form the federal government on Sept 16 as promised, many people had lost their faith in the party. "I find the stories of the 'delutions of Mat Jenin' to be interesting human dramas. I see the 'Mat Jenins' from the peninsula who failed to realise their big dream of forming the government on Sept 16, now trying again to win over the people. "What is clear after Sept 16 is that, whatever new promises they make would only be laughed at," he told reporters when met at the home of Sabah Umno information chief Datuk Sapawi Ahmad in Kampung Ketiau, near here, today.
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