Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has claimed that Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi met him five times between 2018 and 2020.

He revealed this in a court affidavit, responding to Zahid's defamation suit against him for claiming that the latter had tried to lobby the nonagenarian to escape jail time.

In his affidavit filed today, Mahathir said...