Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad agreeing to seek a pardon for jailed PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, and set him on the path to premiership if Pakatan Harapan wins, is not entirely alien, according to the prime minister's wife's aide Rizal Mansor.

Rizal said the same narrative of Mahathir promising to make Anwar prime minister happened in the 1990s but it ultimately ended with Anwar being sacked as deputy prime minister and jailed.

"Does PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail believe in Mahathir's words?

"Last time Mahathir said Anwar will be the prime minister, in the end, Anwar ended up in Sungai Buloh (prison)," he said in a Facebook posting...