Keadilan Youth chief Mohd Ezam Mohd Nor today dismissed the widespread rumours alleging that he was quitting the party as yet another attack by Barisan Nasional (BN) against the Barisan Alternatif (BA).

However, he admitted that he had indicated his willingness to make way for new faces to head the party's Youth wing in line with the party's recent decision to merge with Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM).

"They (the new faces) would be able to provide a more effective leadership than me due to my incarceration. It would also give more room for the party's top leaders to give their best," he said in a press statement released by his lawyers Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin and Mohd Yusmadi Mohd Yusoff. The duo had a two-hour meeting with Ezam in Kajang Prison this morning.

Ezam is serving a two-year jail sentence in Kajang for breaching the Official Secrets Act by exposing classified documents containing allegations of corruption against two senior politicians, one of whom is still a minister.