The post is currently held by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Abdul Rahman Dahlan.

“I must thank him for finally resolving the question in my mind as to what (his) job specifications are – which is clearly to create and amass ‘strategic lies’ about the opposition, and use them to attack opposition parties.

“This is the reason for the outpouring, close to avalanche, of demonisation of myself in the last three months,” he told a press conference in the Parliament building here today.

According to Lim, he was once blocked from appearing in any Umno- or BN-owned media. But now he appears almost daily, often for reports that have no facts or truth to them, the Gelang Patah MP said.

He said some examples of this “fake news” included claims that he had, in a meeting on Dec 3 last year, struck a secret deal with former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to make Mahathir’s son, Mukhriz, the prime minister.

Lim, on the other hand, would be appointed to the deputy prime minister’s post.

“The latest example of such BN ‘strategic lies’ is that I masterminded electoral fraud in the DAP party elections in 2012, which is a new twist to a tissue of lies which had been concocted and disseminated in the BN/Umno misinformation campaign,” he said.

But some of these “strategic lies” were tainted with errors, he added.

“If I am such a political failure in DAP, then Abdul Rahman should be praying fervently that I will remain instead of wanting to see me retire.

“What hypocrisy, and utter bunkum from the BN strategic communications director!”

He also offered to give Rahman a free tuition course on the meaning of strategy.

“It should be ‘strategic’ for Malaysia, for instance, that we should not be regarded as a global kleptocracy, to a stage where we are being mocked and ridiculed by the world.”