UMNO president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi tonight said he and senior party leaders were treated like “faeces” by representatives of the Pakatan Harapan government in a meeting that took place soon after the general election.
Zahid said he and the group of Umno leaders had met certain individuals soon after the party lost power for the first time on May 9.
He declined to name the individuals but it was reported that he had met with senior members of the PH government.
Zahid said the meeting was to ensure so that the new administration take up the agenda of the Malays, Islam and Malay rulers.
The new government leaders, he said, had made unrealistic demands of Umno.
“We were told that Umno must be dissolved and that we had to join a new party. Umno’s history would be erased.”
Barisan Nasional secretary-general Nazri Aziz had recently revealed that he and other senior Umno leaders had met Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who is the PH chairman.
Nazri said meeting was to discuss the possibility of Umno joining the PH government, but he said Dr Mahathir had demanded that Umno be disbanded and that its members joined Bersatu, a PH component party.
Nazri said the party leaders could not accept such a condition.
At the dialogue tonight, Zahid appeared to confirm Nazri’s version of events.
“The price was too steep for us. It was a price we could not pay. I am thankful that the deputy and the other leaders agreed with me that we could not accept these conditions.
“Let us be humiliated but we will not let Umno be dissolved.” – December 18, 2018.
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Limited vocabulary, limited capability, bad, bad English.. a really laughing stock!
He came into power merely by his thuggery..
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