KUALA TERENGGANU, Sept 9 – Terengganu Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said has given a local daily one week to apologise to him with regard to a report which he claimed to be slanderous.
He said if the newspaper failed to do so, he would take legal action for publishing the report on Sept 4.
“It (the report) clearly slandered me,” he told reporters after chairing the weekly State Exco meeting, here today.
Expressing his regret over the news entitled “Muhyiddin Mahu Selesai Kemelut BN Terengganu” (Muhyiddin Wants Terengganu BN Crisis Resolved), Ahmad said the report failed to publish the actual matter on the function attended by more than 5,000 people from Hulu Terengganu and instead looked at it purely from the political aspect.
In the five-page statement which he read out, Ahmad said he had not made political comments all this while so as to avoid negative perception on his relationship with the administration and the political situation.
On a report carried by the news portal The Malaysian Insider that he had declined an offer to become a federal minister to enable him to step down from his post as Terengganu Mentri Besar, Ahmad denied that he had ever received such an offer, and said the news was slanderous and was mere speculation by irresponsible groups.
Asked whether he would take legal action against the news portal, Ahmad said he would look at the news first before taking any action. – Bernama
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