KUALA LUMPUR: Khalid Samad has shot down claims that he abused his position as Federal Territories Minister to allow his party to hold a function at a City Hall premises.
Khalid, the communications director of Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah), said that the premises were rented by the Federal Territories division.
“The DBKL hall was rented. That’s normal. There are many DBKL halls available for rent,” he told reporters at the Parliament lobby here today.
“Yesterday, the hall was rented by Amanah Federal Territories (for a function) to launch its new office.
“The office space is small. We (Amanah) don’t have a big hall so we had to rent elsewhere,” said Khalid in response to former Federal Territories Umno Youth chief Datuk Mohd Razlan Muhammad Rafii.
“We rented it, we did not use it for free. That is Umno’s culture, not ours,” he added.