Fenech Adami's 'loose talk' irks Nationalist MP Robert Arrigo
Nationalist MP Robert Arrigo said to be ‘irked’ by Birkirkara mayor’s observation on Nikki Dimech’s resignation.
‘Careless talk’ from Michael Fenech Adami appears to have angered Nationalist MP and tourism entrepreneur Robert Arrigo.
L-orizzont reports Arrigo took umbrage at Fenech Adami’s observation that Nikki Dimech, the former Sliema mayor who was first expelled from the PN and then resigned, “would bring down Arrigo with him.”
Dimech is facing criminal charges of having demanded a commission on a council contract he was to give to a former personal driver of Arrigo.
Dimech famously called Arrigo his “second father”, having served as Sliema Wanderers FC’s treasurer when the entrepreneur was club president. He was then elected mayor, having received the largest vote count in Sliema, thanks to Arrigo’s public support. But the two have fallen out since.
Fenech Adami has been called in by the administrative council to explain his comments, after Labour organ KullHadd was leaked details of the comments.
L-orizzont has previously reported that an outraged Michael Fenech Adami complained in an internal meeting of PN mayors that a cabinet minister had used public funds to throw a party at his residence, during the sixth year celebrations of Malta’s entry into the European Union no 30 April.