PAS blames Pahang MB for degree-buying rumour

Syed Ibrahim shows his  fake degree to reporters....the stupid lol of UMNO....!!!

It was the Pahang mentri besar and not PAS who first started the speculation that the Kerdau Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate had bought his qualifications, Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man has said.

The PAS Kerdau election director said the issue only cropped up after Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob accused Pakatan Rakyat (PR) of claiming that Syed Ibrahim Syed Ahmad had bought his Al-Azhar University Arabic degree.

“It never cropped up before then. I think this is a political ploy to play with voter sentiment,” Tuan Ibrahim told reporters today.

He stressed that PAS has never raised this “personal matter”, and reiterated that the question of whether Syed Ibrahim graduated from Al-Azhar University was wholly the BN candidate’s own concern.

“For us, the issue of whether he passed or not is his business. It is not our business,” he said.

The PAS vice president said an investigation should be conducted to uncover who first started the degree-buying rumour, which he suggested could have originated from within Umno itself.

Tuan Ibrahim also promised that PAS will not engage in personal attacks during the Kerdau campaign as there were more pressing issues to deal with.

“We intend to expose issues that are of greater concern to the people,” he said.

PAS central working committee member Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad concurred, pointing out that it was more important for voters here to decide who was better suited to tackle the lack of development in this rural constituency.

Allegations that Syed Ibrahim, popularly known as Syed Ibra, had lied about graduating from the prestigious Al-Azhar University surfaced in the week leading up to nomination day.

The BN candidate has been accused of lying about his qualifications, failing his studies and buying his degree from the second-oldest university in Cairo.

Adnan, however, said last week that he has seen Syed Ibrahim’s degree certificate, which the Kuala Krau deputy division chief later showed to Datuk Seri Najib Razak during the prime minister’s visit here yesterday.

Syed Ibrahim faces PAS’s Hassanuddin Salim for the Kerdau state seat, in the first by-election in Najib’s home state of Pahang.

The seat fell vacant after the death of Datuk Zaharuddin Abu Kassim from a heart attack on January 12.

There are 8,999 registered voters and 15 postal voters here, 89 per cent of whom are Malay, 5 per cent Chinese, 3.3 per cent Indian and 2.8 per cent others.