He was the personal assistant of former Malaysia Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and also the accuser in Anwar's second sodomy trial. On 28 June , he lodged a police report claiming that he had been forcibly sodomised by Anwar. Saiful was an electrical engineering student but did not earn a degree due to his dismissal from the college in In the Malaysian general election , he supported the opposition political party, accusing the incumbent Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi , of cronyism and corruption. He was later appointed as a personal assistant to party leader, Anwar Ibrahim.