Mat Sabu - Aku manusia bukannya dibuat dari plastik...

Timbalan Presiden PAS Mohamad Sabu yang dikecam ahli parti kerana dikatakan berkempen menentang presiden parti menolak dakwaan tersebut dengan mengatakan bagaimana beliau berkempen bagi Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang semasa Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 (PRU13).

Mohamad atau lebih dikenali sebagai Mat Sabu berkata, beliau juga berkempen untuk bekas ketua Pemuda PAS Nasrudin Hassan, apabila beliau bertanding kerusi Temerloh tahun lepas.

Nasrudin dianggap suara yang berpengaruh antara golongan konservatif parti, juga antara yang tidak dipersetujui Mat Sabu.

Mat Sabu berkata beliau menolong Hadi dalam memenangi kerusi parlimen di Marang, Terengganu. Hadi berada di belakang calon Umno pada masa itu dan hampir kalah.

"Apabila saya mendengar Nasrudin susah mendapat sokongan kaum Cina, saya turun padang untuk bercakap kepada mereka dan bawa Nasrudin untuk memberitahu mereka inilah calon (Pakatan Rakyat). Tolong undi dia," kata Mat Sabu.

Mat Sabu berkata, Hadi dan Nasrudin dapat menang sementara beliau sendiri kalah di Parlimen Pendang.

"Mereka katakan saya cuba jatuhkan presiden. Tetapi apabila saya dengar presiden akan kalah di Marang, saya pergi ke Terengganu untuk buat sebaik mungkin.

"Saya tidak boleh terima yang presiden kita akan kalah. Pada masa sama saya tidak boleh terima bekas ketua pemuda kita (Nasrudin) akan kalah juga.

"Saya pernah bercanggah pendapat dengan Nasrudin dahulu, tetapi saya tidak boleh biarkan beliau kalah. Jadi saya tolong beliau. Akhirnya saya yang kalah tetapi tidak mengapa," kata Mohamad.

Mohamad sudah lama menjadi fokus kemarahan golongan konservatif PAS daripada sayap Pemuda ke para ulama hingga ke pemimpin bahagian di seluruh himpunan utama.

Beliau dituduh merancang kempen menentang Hadi selepas mempersoalkan keputusannya dalam krisis menteri besar Selangor.

Semasa himpunan Pemuda ketika beliau memberi ucapan, kumpulan delegasi keluar dari dewan sebagai tanda protes.

Mohamad berkata, walaupun beliau berada di dalam parti untuk masa yang lama dan banyak pengalaman dalam dikritik, beliau masih kecil hati dengan tuduhan komplot beliau terhadap presiden.

"Saya masih manusia juga, bukannya dibuat dari plastik."

Menurut Mohamad Sabu atau Mat Sabu, muktamar kali ini beliau menjadi sasaran daripada perwakilan lain untuk mengkritik tindakannya.

“Entah macam mana saya menjadi sasaran.

“Tetapi saya berasa seronok bila mereka bercakap dan berterus terang dalam mengkritik dan memberi cadangan di Muktamar kali ke-60 ini.

Katanya lagi, apa yang tidak seronok gambar beliau ada pihak yang tidak menyukai tindakannya telah membubuh cat.

“Tak seronoklah, jangan buat macam itu, muslimat marah.

“Bagi yang mengkritik itu perkara biasa. Namun perjuangan kita tetap berlandaskan Islam dan tidak akn berubah,” jelasnya.

Ujarnya, apa yang beliau cakap di depan wartawan itu semuanya berdasarkan mesyuarat yang telah diputuskan oleh semua di dalam PAS.

Pada 17 Ogos lalu, Presiden PAS, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang tidak dapat hadir dan ada masalah kesihatan.

“Tapi saya baca semua keputusan dan surat yang ditandatangani oleh Presiden. Tidak tinggal sepatah ayat pon.

“7 September juga PAS sudah buat keputusan untuk menolak jawatan menteri besar. Kami sentiasa berhubung dan mengadakan mesyuarat dalam membuat keputusan yang penting. 

“Jadi tidak timbul saya mengkhianati Presiden atau membelakanginya,” katanya.- tmi/fmt

Sementara itu Mohamad Sabu hari ini menyindir perwakilan Wilayah Persekutuan Azhari Ariffin(atas) yang membacakan doa dalam ucapan untuk mengecam beliau dan dua ADUN Selangor semalam.

Beliau menyifatkan tindakan berdoa itu sebagai satu "taktik baru" yang tidak pernah digunakan sebelum ini.

"Walaupun ada perkara baru yang dipersembahkan. Baru kali pertama saya tengok ucapan dalam bentuk doa.

"Dulu kita guna doa, bila nak ceramah tak boleh, FRU suruh bersurai, akhirnya kita berdoa," katanya.

Perwakilan itu pula menggunakan taktik tersebut untuk menghadapi larangan pengerusi tetap, kata Mohamad dalam ucapan penggulungannnya di Muktamar PAS Ke-60, petang ini.

"Tambah lagi sewaktu Ustaz Abu Bakar Cik berdoa, panjang. Macam tu juga dengan Ustaz Fadzil Nor.

"Macam semalam, kalau berdoa panjang, Pengerusi tetap nak suruh berhenti, doa.

"Ooo... rupanya ini taktik baru. Lepas ini kita baca talkin pula. Lepas ini kita baca talkin dalam bahasa Melayu (sewaktu berbahas)," katanya sinis sambil diiringi gelak ketawa perwakilan.

Walaupun beliau memuji tindakan Azhari tampil berbahas tetapi tokoh PAS itu tetap menyindir bahawa pemimpin muda itu tidak mendedahkan identiti sebenar.

Beliau juga menolak tuduhan oleh perwakilan yang curiga dengan pemimpin PAS yang berkawan dengan pemimpin sosialis.

Katanya, beliau sebagai pengerusi jawatankuasa mobilisasi dan demokrasi bertanggungjawab untuk mendekati “kumpulan kuasa ketiga”.

Tindakannya itu juga disokong oleh Setiausaha Agung Datuk Mustafa Ali dalam ucapan terdahulu.

Mustafa berkata Mohamad sememangnya bertanggungjawab berkawan dengan pemimpin Parti Sosialis Malaysia dan NGO Islam dan bukan Islam.

"Tanggungjawab dia sebagai pengerusi gerakan mobilisasi dan demokrasi berhubung dengan NGO, termasuk bukan NGO bukan Islam dan PSM," kata Mustafa dalam ucapan penggulungannya.- mk

Mat Sabu counters roasting with humour...

After being roasted by several delegates at the 60th PAS muktamar, PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu finally took to the stage today with his usual sense of humour intact.

"I don't know how I suddenly became a target at the muktamar this time, but it's amusing when people are direct in their criticism.

"What is not amusing, is my picture on a banner nearby being spray-painted.

"Don't do that, the women's wing will be upset," he joked in apparent reference to his looks.

Mohamad over the last two days was accused of trying to undermine PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang, allying himself with "godless" socialists and being disrespectful of party clerics.

It didn't help when a week before the muktamar, he in an interview with Malaysiakini ticked the party leaders off for bandying Islam instead of concentrating on justice and good governance.

Dismissing claims he was out to undermine Hadi, Mohamad, better known as Mat Sabu, related how he had worked hard to ensure the party president won in the last general election.

He also addressed his apparent contradictory statements with Hadi on the Selangor crisis, stating that he was only conveying decisions made at the party's meeting.

'Not out to topple Hadi'

He cited the Aug 17 decision which decided to endorse PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and her deputy Azmin Ali as menteri besar candidates.

"I read out at the press conference the statement that was signed by the president, I did not even change a dot in the text," he said in his winding-up speech.

Hadi subsequently overruled the central committee and submitted his own list of names to the Selangor palace for consideration, which included a PAS representative.

"Having the intention to topple the president had never come across our hearts," said Mohamad.

He added that his presence at a Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) function was due to his duties as the democracy and mobilisation bureau chief which requires him to engage other political parties.

He also denied a delegate's accusation that he had alluded that Indonesian president-elect Joko Widodo, fondly known as Jokowi, was better than Hadi.

Instead, Mohamad said he had merely used Jokowi's victory as Indonesian president to highlight the rise of the "third force" which he said was likewise happening in Malaysia.

"Those who are being charged for sedition, people like Adam Adli, Safwan Anang, Hishamuddin Rais, all these are what is called the third force that may shape the future political landscape," he said.

He stressed that the Islamic party needed to keep abreast of these developments.

Mohamad also emphasised the need for PAS to have friends, using the problems of Egypt's Islamic Brotherhood as illustration.

"After the Islamic Brotherhood came to power, they excluded many party's because they thought they could go it alone.

"But when there was a crackdown against the Islamic Brotherhood, there were no more tens of thousands of supporters that had hit the streets to support them," he said.

'Veto power used sparingly'

Meanwhile, PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali too defended Mohamad, stating that it was he who had asked the deputy president to attend PSM events.

Likewise, Mustafa also defended Hadi's move to veto the party's central committee, stating that the president did not normally exercise this power.

"The president does not use his veto power all the time, there should not be such perception," he said.

Mustafa said Hadi had only exercised his power when decisions needed to be done on short notice.

In the case of the Selangor crisis, Mustafa claimed the palace had asked for names for menteri besar candidates on a short notice, therefore Hadi made his own decision in consultation with the syura council.

He claimed PAS and its Pakatan Rakyat partners were unable to decide on who should be the next Selangor menteri besar, thus prolonging the crisis.

Even though the PAS' central committee had decided that the top post belonged to PKR, Hadi's list to the palace included a PAS candidate.

After the muktamar, Mustafa was asked if PAS would accept the menteri besar position if offered by the Selangor sultan, but was coy about the matter.

"If a PKR candidate is chosen, we will support it, but if PAS is chosen, I don't want to comment," he said.- mk

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