Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua said he would be happy to apologise for calling PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang ‘nyanyuk’ (senile), if the latter would apologise to PKR's president for unflattering comments.

"Let me state here openly - I will not hesitate to be the first to publicly apologise to tok guru Hadi Awang if he will similarly apologise to Kak Wan (Wan Azizah Wan Ismail).

"It is the right and decent thing to do for a religious leader," said Pua on Facebook today.

He was reported to have made a jibe at Hadi for saying the latter didn't support Wan Azizah as Selangor menteri besar as he didn't want PAS to be " dragged to hell ".

"Is he senile?" was Pua's response to Hadi's statement according to a report on The Rakyat Post.

Pua was responding to an open letter from what appears to be a PAS supporter, calling on the MP to apologise.

He said Hadi's remarks against Wan Azizah were "highly insulting, disparaging and even defamatory".

"We are referring here not about anyone but the president of a fellow coalition partner!" said Pua, who is also Selangor DAP chief.

Hadi's remarks were made during PAS' annual muktamar last week in Johor, in which the ulama faction continued to show fierce opposition to Wan Azizah as well as PAS members who supported her.

PAS: Don't interfere

Pua added that he missed the "old PAS" that had worked closely with its Pakatan partners.

"I have many good friends in PAS who are great leaders, but they are clearly being sidelined even by their own party," said Pua.

"I spent my past five years telling Malaysians that PAS is a party they could trust and believe in.

"I told them the coalition has a lot more in common than the little differences we had. I have no intent nor interest in pushing PAS away," he added.

Meanwhile, in response to Pua's question whether Hadi has gone 'senile', PAS vice president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man ( left ) urged other parties not to interfere in PAS' business.

"I respect the principle of partnership in coalition. We ask that we keep to one another's party boundaries.

"We don't need to interfere in other parties and don't need to comment on other parties' leadership.

"Sometimes we don't understand what a person really meant. We have to listen to the whole speech," he said.

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