Pak Lah leads anti-Anwar charge - Malaysiakini.tv

At the opposition bashing fiesta, Abdullah picked on Anwar - the PKR de facto leader - even though he had declared at the onset of his speech that it is no longer important to talk about him.

"I don't need to talk about Anwar, he is not important to me, he is not important to Umno. He doesn�t have friends in Umno because he fights against the party.

"The party can�t accept him back, no way! We have enough leaders, no need to wait for him to come back," he thundered to a round of applause.

Abdullah said that, since Anwar is not being accepted, the latter has started to "look for friends" in the opposition parties. He reiterated Anwar has merely been making irresponsible "empty promises" to voters.

BN leaders had earlier dismissed the ex-deputy premier - who was sacked in 1998 after a fallout with then premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad - as not having significant political influence.

Abdullah also took on Guan Eng, questioning the DAP secretary-general�s sincerity in contesting in Penang.

"I heard that Penangites not only want a chief minister who is from Penang, but also from the island. Where does Lim Guan Eng come from? He ran away from Malacca and came here, does he think that the Penangites are stupid or what?" he asked.