“I know Azam Baki is watching this! I hope that when Pakatan Harapan wins when we look for you, you don't blame your brother again.”

-PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli

COMMENT | These were not precisely PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli’s famous last words on the then beleaguered MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki.

Indeed, they were spoken at an election rally before the 15th general election and echoed the sentiments.

Before that, the Pakatan Harapan secretarial council, consisting of PKR’s Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Amanah’s Hatta Ramli, DAP’s Anthony Loke, and Upko’s Nelson Anggang, urged then-prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob to order Azam to take a leave of absence until a full investigation was completed into his proxy stock trading scandal.

Even...