FORMER Negri Sembilan menteri besar Mohd Isa Abdul Samad has been accepted back into Umno, said Umno secretary-general Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki. 

He said this was decided at the Umno Supreme Council (MT) meeting chaired by president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi last night. 

“Yes, this matter was decided at the MT meeting last night. The official letter has not been issued yet because the meeting ended at midnight and I did not have time to go to the office,” he told reporters at Wisma Umno Negri Sembilan today. 

Mohd Isa, 74, a former MP for Jempol, quit UMNO in 2018 to contest in the Port Dickson parliamentary by-election because Umno did not field a candidate. 

Meanwhile, Isa thanked the party leadership for approving his application to join Umno, submitted in July last year.

According to him, he is now a member of Bagan Pinang Umno and is prepared to campaign for the unity government in the state election. 

“Thank you for accepting me as an Umno member; I have never opposed the party. When I was out of Umno, I still supported the party; I attended all Umno election ceramahs,” he said. – Bernama, May 27, 2023.