Takiyuddin had interjected Azalina’s winding-up speech on the Supply Bill 2025 to ask her to state whether the addendum mentioned in affidavits provided by Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Umno vice-president Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail actually existed.
He said Azalina is the minister in charge of the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the attorney-general is part of the Federal Territories Pardons Board which decided on the former prime minister’s application for a royal pardon.
“Don’t tell me you did not receive any information on the (purported) addendum from the AG?” he said in the Dewan Rakyat.
Azalina fired back, saying that Takiyuddin was a law minister during Muhyiddin Yassin’s administration.
“As a former law minister, you should be smarter than to assume (that the AG reports to her).
“In the Madani government, I am the minister in charge of law. I’m not involved in the AG’s appointment, I don’t look into the AG’s files, nor am I involved with the pardons board,” she said, adding that the federal territories ministry acts as the secretariat to the FTPB.
Takiyuddin then said Azalina should not “resort to trickery”, to which the minister accused him of being the one using trickery.
“Are you admitting that you gave directions to the AG when you were minister? We don’t do that in the Madani government,” Azalina said.
Takiyuddin said Azalina should just be upfront and say so if she was unable to answer his question.
Earlier this year, the FTPB halved Najib’s prison sentence in his SRC International case from 12 years to six, and reduced his fine from RM210 million to RM50 million. He is currently serving his sentence in Kajang prison.
In a leave application filed in April, Najib claimed that the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Al-Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, had issued the supplementary decree during a meeting of the FTPB, held on Jan 29, a day before his term ended.
He alleged the supplementary decree was not announced by the board on Feb 2 and that the government was in contempt for not executing it.
The Court of Appeal has fixed Dec 5 to hear his appeal from the dismissal of his application for leave for a judicial review over the purported royal decree.