Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has found no basis for issuing an apology to Gerakan over claims that he had defamed the party and its former president Koh Tsu Koon.

Instead, Lim's special legal officer Raja Syarafina Raja Shuib said the chief minister's office readily welcomed service of the cause papers by Gerakan’s legal team.

"What we can’t anticipate, however, is the question of the long time needed to file a suit and the timing now just before the 14th general elections," she added...