Khairy, who is also Rembau MP, is the son-in-law of former prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

“This is not the issue of being ‘kebal’. I don’t think this is correct… I did not view myself as such,” he said when questioned during examination-in-chief by his lawyer, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, who is leading the defendants’ team.

Khairy who is the first defence witness, was recalled today to testify at the trial of a RM100 million defamation suit filed by Anwar against him.

Anwar is currently serving a five-year jail sentence for sodomy.

Khairy also denied that he harboured any form of vengeance against Anwar or held a road show condemning the former opposition leader in relation to the latter’s sodomy case decision.

Responding to Anwar’s allegation in his witness statement, Khairy said Umno Youth had held the road show in Kelana Jaya to explain the decision of the sodomy case made by the Federal Court on Feb 10, 2015.

Khairy also said there was no office on the fourth floor at the Prime Minister’s Department when his father-in-law was the prime minister as claimed by Anwar in his witness statement.

On March 7, 2008, Anwar filed the suit against Khairy seeking RM100 million in damages, claiming that Khairy had uttered defamatory words about him in a talk in Lembah Pantai here on Feb 20, 2008.

Khairy was vice-head of Umno Youth then.

Anwar claimed the defamatory words and a video clip entitled “Anwar and kin no threat” was uploaded on several websites, including Malaysiakini.

The hearing before Judge Azizul Azmi Adnan continues next Monday.