According to Lokman, Ismail had purportedly agreed to expedite the criminal court cases of former prime minister Najib Razak and Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

The agreement was purportedly signed before Ismail’s appointment as prime minister last August.

“You want to know if the (document) is real? Why don’t you ask Raja Petra? He is the one who leaked it,” Hamzah, the PN secretary-general, told reporters after being asked to confirm the authenticity of the purported agreement.

Copies of four pages of the agreement, which appear to contain 10 points, made their rounds in July. However, pages containing points 7, 8, and 9 were omitted.

According to Lokman, those points included an agreement by Ismail to retain Attorney-General Idrus Harun. Idrus was appointed AG after Muhyiddin took office as the eighth prime minister.

He added that Ismail had agreed to maintain the Cabinet team, in addition to retaining Bersatu and PAS leaders sitting at government-linked companies.

Malaysiakini reported that Lokman, a former Umno Supreme Council member, had also urged his party to take disciplinary action against Ismail, who is a party vice-president.

Lokman was charged in the Kuala Lumpur sessions court earlier today on two counts of making offensive posts regarding the prime minister.

The 49-year-old pleaded not guilty to the charges read to him before judge Nor Hasniah Ab Razak, framed under Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.

The section carries a penalty of a maximum one-year imprisonment or RM50,000 fine, or both, upon conviction.

Nor Hasniah granted bail of RM8,000 for each charge and imposed a gag order on Lokman. The court fixed Sept 26 for case mention.

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