Chegubard: Enemies within PKR behind fake Twitter account
(Malaysian Digest) – PKR leader Badrul Hisham Shahrin who was detained by police yesterday over allegedly seditious posts on what he claims is a “fake” Twitter account suspects that the act was the work of his adversaries from within the party.
“This AMK Rembau account existed since the party polls, and is managed by those who want to malign me. This is the type of nasty political strategy which exists within PKR,” he said.
There is no Twitter account by the name AMK Rembau, reportedly, although a search for the account on Twitter returned one result – an account called Umno Baru.
Badrul, who lost in his bid for Youth chief to incumbent Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin, added that there is also a fake account on the social networking site Facebook.
“Many issues from the party polls have yet to be resolved, so the strategy is to use the fake accounts… I don’t have time to entertain such dirty internal political games. I hardly have enough time for myself,” said Badrul who had been freed on police bail after a police report was lodged in Ampang by Umno over a Twitter account with the name AMK Rembau.
The AMK Rembau purportedly posted tweets that maligned the royal institution.
“I insisted that the AMK Rembau account has nothing to do with the PKR Youth division but police confiscated my Blackberry smartphone and tried to find my laptop computer and the division’s computer,” he posted on his own Twitter account last night.
Badrul, a Rembau-based Youth leader popularly known as Chegubard, said that the “fake” account was already in operation during PKR’s heated party polls last year.
Rembau PKR Youth chief Md Sani Mohd Shah has reiterated that his division has no links to the AMK Rembau account.
“I am certain that this account was used to confuse the public by showing our division in bad light. The user has been observed making lewd comments and making all sorts of inappropriate statements,” he said in a press statement.
Md Sani said the Rembau PKR Youth division rejects the use of “this evil tactic” and warned those behind the AMK Rembau account to “stop their dirty politics”.
“You have won in the party polls, so do the work. Don’t blame Chegubard and his friends if you have failed to do so,” he said.
Md Sani also called for claims of rigging in the party’s internal polls to be investigated by party authorities.
“We have been patient for very long for the sake of the party but we are constantly demonized. Are we traitors because we spoke out over irregularities within the party polls?” he asked.
Badrul had during the party polls written to party president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to probe into over claims of vote rigging, involving her de facto party leader husband Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
