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JITRA - Ex Perlis Umno chief Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim believed that his former party president had an inflated sense of self-importance, so much so, that the latter can simply force the court to postpone his corruption trial.
The Arau MP argued that Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi — also the Deputy Prime Minister — had wasted not just the court’s time but also the judge’s when his case had to be deffered because Zahid wanted to attend the Cabinet Meeting.
“The case is already in its final stages. Why bother postponing it? Before this he said that he will see through it to end. So, just do that.
“Cabinet Meeting? Oh please, the Cabinet won’t collapse — for now — if you didn’t attend the meeting. What an excuse.
“The country won’t go to ruins if you were absent [from the Cabinet Meeting],” said Shahidan at the Perikatan Nasional (PN) hustings at Dataran Darulaman here last night.
Shahidan won the Arau parliamentary seat under PN in last year’s general election after staging a revolt against Umno for not fielding him as candidate.
Facing 47 corruption charges, Zahid’s trial was initially scheduled to continue yesterday morning before Justice Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah, with his lawyers expected to continue cross-examining the seventh defence witness and his former secretary.
The case will resume today morning.