Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali should come clean on the real reason behind his appointment to replace Abdul Gani Patail as he knows that the decision was not made out of the blue, said former law minister Zaid Ibrahim.

“He (Apandi) has in the past admitted as much but the real reason was not known.

“That is what the whole country wants to know. Why was he chosen?” Zaid told Malaysiakini when contacted.