Lim Soo Nee, the state assemblyman for Kulim, said Zulkifli sent him threatening messages asking for money on March 5 and 6 of that year.
He said the Kulim-Bandar Baru MP told him PAS needed the money for its campaign in the 2008 general election.
Lim described Zulkifli as someone who would twist facts to suit his convenience.
“He will go to any extreme to satisfy his needs, even to the point of using third parties,” he said.
“I’m exposing this now only because I can no longer sit and watch him dupe the rakyat. I am sure many are easily hoodwinked by him.”
Zulkifli was sacked from PKR last month and now serves as an independent MP. His recent speeches appear to be supportive of the Najib administration. In one of those speeches, he said he was offered a large sum of money to implicate Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor in the murder of Mongolian beauty Altantuya.
Lim said Zulkifli told him during the 2008 election campaign that he was in possession of sensitive evidence relating to Altantuya's murder.
At the time, Zulkifli was the lawyer for Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri, one of the suspects in the murder. However, he subsequently withdrew as Azilah’s counsel.
Last March 24, Zulkifli resurrected the Altantuya saga in Parliament when he claimed that a third party had offered him payment in return for implicating Najib and his wife in the murder. He said the amount offered was enough to “shake one's faith”.
'Tell the truth or resign'
In the Altantuya case, Abdul Razak Baginda, an aide and close friend of Najib's, was charged with abetting Azilah and another special operations officer, Sirul Azhar.
Abdul Razak was subsequently acquitted, but the two policemen have been sentenced to death.
Describing Zulkifli's disclosure as a “confession” and a “betrayal of friend and party,” Lim said:
“Zulkifli sent me two text messages during the 12th general election asking for campaign money. He claimed a third party needed the funds.
“According to my SMS record, he said the PAS machinery needed RM21,000 for the campaign and that PAS would boycott the campaign if the request was not met.
“Zulkifli said I only needed to bear part of the cost, which was RM7,000.”
Because he did not immediately respond, he said, Zulkifli sent him a second message telling him he had angered PAS and urging him to give whatever he could.
“After Pakatan Rakyat won the election, I happened to meet the Kulim-Bandar Baru PAS chief, Yaakub Husin,” Lim said. “I mentioned the incident to him. He was shocked and denied asking for money for the campaign.
“Since then, I have been wondering what Zulkifli needed the money for because there was such urgency in his messages.”
He has challenged Zulkifli to tell the truth or at least resign in the name of truth.
“Better we have a by-election,” he said. “Then we’ll see if the Kulim-Bandar Baru constituents will support him.”
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