Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail on Monday said the discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) of Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi from 47 charges in the Yayasan Akalbudi graft case was decided by the court.
Saifuddin said he did not want to be drawn into the debate.
00:00 This morning, Dato' Zahid has been given DNMA by the court. What is the optics surrounding this case? Will it impact the by-elections that are ongoing in Pulau and Sembawang Jaram?
00:16 Number one, I'm not in the position to predict the outcome of any by-election. That's number one. The decision was made by the court. It's a due process. Just like a few weeks ago, the court also released the President.
00:34 So, if today, the court also made the same decision, and that is the court's decision. I don't want to make any more predictions than that. Far from keeping the effect of the court's decision on the president's decision.
00:50 Do you think that the national association, is there any statistic that the national association will use this issue as an emulation during the by-election?
01:00 Whatever they want to use, it will be used as a political party. It will continue to happen. With or without today's decision by the court, it will continue.
01:12 So, I think that's a normal thing in politics.
