The DAP veteran was referring to his speech at the Johor Pakatan Harapan Chinese New Year Open House on Sunday night.
“Only the dumbest and those grossly deficient in the English language and general comprehension would use what I said in my speech in Muar on Sunday to mount an attack on Muhyiddin on the grounds I had claimed the Deputy Prime Minister was my ‘latest recruit’ in the ‘Save Malaysia’ campaign,” said Lim who is also DAP Parliamentary Leader.
“I have never done so. ‘Save Malaysia’ was not my monopoly but the responsibility of every patriotic Malaysian.”
Lim was disclosing that he was quite tickled on Tuesday night by a flurry of headlines in news portals: “Muhyiddin says not Kit Siang’s latest recruit in ‘Save Malaysia’ campaign” (MMO); “I’m my own man, not your recruit, Muhyiddin tells Kit Siang” (Malaysiakini); “I’m nobody’s recruit, says Muhyiddin” (TMI) and “‘I am not Kit Siang’s recruit’, says Muhyiddin” (FMT).
“University of Umno” graduates, whether Ministers, national bureau chiefs or cybertroopers, should attend English language lessons and polish up on their levels of comprehension so that they would not continue to make howlers, advised Lim. He cited the case of Umno Information Chief Annuar Musa claiming that the RM2.6 billion donation deposited in Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s personal banking accounts was “not a big sum” to face one General Election. “He ran from the media when asked to elaborate on the matter.”
Attorney-General Mohamad Apandi Ali’s exoneration of Najib from any criminal wrongdoing in the RM2.6 billion “donation” and RM42 million SRC International scandals was intended to mislead Malaysians and the world into believing that the Najib government was one of integrity, accountability and good governance, lamented Lim.
In another case, added Lim, a Deputy Minister wanted action to be taken against food outlets which mislead Muslims with their “pork-free” labeling to mean halal when “pork free” simply means what it says and says what it means that it does not supply pork meat, nothing more nothing less. “The term ‘pork free’ does not mean ‘halal’.”
Lim, in summing up, said that only time will tell whether the “Save Malaysia” campaigns inside or outside Umno, can find a meeting point. “Besides the ‘Save Malaysia’ campaign being the responsibility and challenge of every Malaysian, patriotic Umno leaders, the three million Umno members and 21,000 Umno branches must participate as well.”