“The Johor Sultan never liked Salleh. He (Salleh) wrote a letter complaining about noise coming from his (Sultan’s) house. That was wrong… but Salleh wrote the letter and copied it to every Sultan. The Johor Sultan, who was the Agong, was annoyed and said this is the wrong thing to do, and he asked me to dismiss Salleh,” said Mahathir
Dr Mahathir also blamed the then Attorney-General, Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman, of having made him the complainant instead of Tuanku Iskandar when the government instituted a tribunal, as required by the constitution, to remove Salleh.
