PKR deputy presidential candidate Rafizi Ramli has claimed that his opponent Mohamed Azmin Ali travelled to Turkey to ask Anwar Ibrahim for the party president post.

According to Rafizi, Azmin had told president-elect Anwar, who was in Turkey to receive medical treatment, to step aside and allow him to become the president of PKR.

"I can say here that he (Azmin) went to Turkey to meet with Anwar himself...