“Ask your Abah,” he said in a Facebook post, using the courtesy title that Perikatan Nasional chairman Muhyiddin Yassin had adopted while he was prime minister.
“I was not involved nor was the Barisan Nasional (BN) government,” Najib said.
He said his critics should also ask DAP chairman Lim Guan Eng about delays to a Penang airport expansion project.
Last night, Penang DAP had claimed that Najib and BN had a hand in the cancellation of a RM2 billion loan application for an LRT project in Penang as well as a proposed RM100 million cable car project for Penang Hill.
They also accused Najib and BN of impeding the mammoth Penang South Island reclamation project and of delaying a billion-ringgit expansion of Penang airport.
Najib said it was best for the party to refer to Lim, as the airport project was held back when Pakatan Harapan (PH) was in power. Lim was the finance minister at the time.
Najib said it was he who had approved the airport expansion project for which he was thanked by Lim himself, who was then chief minister of Penang.
Najib said that the airport expansion was postponed after PH came to power in 2018, and that Lim, who had become finance minister, had wanted to privatise the project, claiming the federal government lacked the funds.
“You delay the project to get cronies on board, then blame BN,” Najib said.
Penang DAP had listed these projects to dismiss Najib’s claim that the BN had never sidelined Penang, adding that such claims were made to woo voters.
Najib tells of PH ‘betrayal’ over tolls
Najib later posted that the DAP had betrayed the people of Penang over its promise to abolish the toll on the Penang bridge if Pakatan Harapan won the general election in 2018. Instead, Lim had allowed the toll concession period to be extended by 20 more years until 2058.
“The PH-DAP government gave an 18% discount on the bridge toll in 2020 and asked the people of Penang to praise them. But do the people of Penang know that this 18% discount was given on the condition that the PLUS concession on bridge and highway tolls is extended for another 20 years from 2038 to 2058?
“The people of Penang (and their grandchildren) have to pay tolls for 38 years. The discount is small but the concession period is doubled and the amount of toll that the people of Penang will pay is much larger,” he said.