We are saviours not traitors, says Hamzah

Chan Kok Leong Chan Kok Leong Updated 5 years ago · Published on 23 Aug 2020 7:00AM · 10 Comments

THOSE who defected and caused the fall of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government should be held up as saviours instead of traitors, said Hamzah Zainuddin.

“We gain power through elections. But after GE14, we (Barisan Nasional) lost and somebody else won,” said the Home Minister in a ceramah in Felda Trolak Utara in Perak last night.

“When others have won, we were forced to sacrifice to regain power. But who should sacrifice? That task fell to some of us to ensure we regain that power again.

“As such, we should uphold those who had sacrificed as saviours. They are not traitors but saviours.

“So, we should not be envious or jealous but treat those who had sacrificed with sincerity and honesty,” said Hamzah who is also the Bersatu secretary-general.

Hamzah was speaking at the “5 secretaries-general ceramah” ahead of the Slim state seat by-election.

Along with him were secretaries-general Annuar Musa (Barisan Nasional), Takiyuddin Hasan (PAS), Chong Sin Woon (MCA) and M. Asojan (MIC).

Hamzah Zainuddin is among other parties' secretaries-general to be featured in last night's Slim by-election campaign event. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, August 23, 2020.

Hamzah, who won the Larut seat contesting under BN, was one of 15 Umno MPs who defected to Bersatu between 2018 and 2019.

The group was later joined by 10 other defectors from PKR led by former deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali. Together, they later pulled Bersatu out of the PH coalition, causing its collapse after just 22 months in government.

This is the first time Hamzah or any Bersatu leader has appeared in the Slim by-election campaign since nomination day on August 15.

The seat is being contested by Umno’s Mohd Zaidi Aziz, former Bersatu member Amir Khusyairi Mohamad Tanusi and Santhara Segaran Subramaniam.

Although it was Hamzah’s first speaking engagement in the Slim by-election, there was a huge group of Bersatu members led by newly-elected Women’s Wing chief Rina Harun and another former Umno MP, Noor Azmi Ghazali.

Noor Azmi, who is now the deputy health minister, was the first Umno MP to quit the party in 2018 to join Bersatu.

Unlike the earlier ceramah which hosted former Umno president Najib Razak, last night’s event was notable for the absence of Umno members.

Other than the large group of Bersatu members, who have also been absent during most of the campaign, the only BN supporters were from MCA and MIC. – August 23, 2020.

Umno members are nowhere to be seen in the ceramah last night. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, August 23, 2020.

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  • What kok logic

    Posted 5 years ago by Watch Dog · Reply

  • Hahahhahahahaha! That's a good one! Quality joke.

    Posted 5 years ago by Léon Moch · Reply

  • So according to this fellow (whose face will not make him a candidate to be cast as the good guy in any film) the defection of the 15 were part of a covert and surreptitious strategy to infiltrate the lawfully elected government and kill it..so that the ketuananship will revert to their kind. How clever.

    Posted 5 years ago by The Rover · Reply

  • A traitor is a traitor no matter how you justify it. You will go down in history to be the traitor that brought the ruling party down because of personal interest

    Posted 5 years ago by Adrian Tan · Reply

  • God would decide in the near future, whether what you all did to bring down a democratically elected government, for fame and power was good or otherwise. Nobody gets away from God's judgement. Period!

    Posted 5 years ago by Malaysian Earthling · Reply

  • If it is a sacrifice, then deduct all your salaries & give up all your 2nd income through GLCs & suffer together with the rakyat.

    Posted 5 years ago by A Subscriber · Reply

  • Statistics showed that majority of Malaysians didnt want a BN government in GE14. If indeed the voting trend have changed, it should have been done via GE15 and not a through a backdoor government.

    Posted 5 years ago by Raghu Thiyagarajan · Reply

  • Effectively, this a breach of trust of the people. Go figure you bunch of traitors.

    Posted 5 years ago by Malaysia Baru 09052018 · Reply

  • Their brains are not in their heads. They are stucked between the two balls below. Hence upside down. Saving means destroying and clean governance means we are going to screw you all over, repeatedly.

    Posted 5 years ago by Concerned Citizen · Reply

  • dont tokkok la...you brainless nincompoop...
    turncoats can be heroes meh?

    Posted 5 years ago by KNN ... · Reply