The man who once said “I am willing to testify” (The Sun, 28 October 1999) , comes up with a 14-page affidavit to say that he is unwilling to go to Court!

The man who once complained “The Courts have limited what I can say about Anwar” (NST, 30 September 1999), strongly declines to have his say and day in Court!

The man who once declared “I have incontrovertible proof, that it (the allegation of sodomy) is true...Other people cannot very well get the information I got” (Straits Times, 23 September 1998), now declares he has nothing new to add to the case!

The man who once preached that “the law must be allowed to take its course” (NST, 23 April 1999), decides how the law should take its course!

The man who, before audiences in Tokyo, London, and New York, “testified” and “ruled” that Anwar is guilty of sodomy, lacks the courage to do the same in a Court at home!

The man who once told the foreign press that Anwar “tried to overthrow me”, tells the Court through an affidavit, that he never bore any grudge against Anwar or felt his position as the premier or the UMNO president being threatened by his deputy.

The man who has neither time nor tolerance for the judicial process now insists that summoning him as a witness would be “in bad taste and an abuse of the court process.”

The man who wants us to believe that “...in this country, no one is above the law” (NST, 7 September 1999)...” will testify only if given a list of the questions...” (The Sun, 28 October 1999).

The man does not at all believe in what he had once so movingly proclaimed (!) — neither does the Court, which eventually ruled that the PM need not testify!