Ku Li made chairman of Umno’s council of advisers

Mohd Farhan Darwis Mohd Farhan Darwis Updated 7 years ago · Published on 27 Jul 2018 8:33PM · 3 Comments

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has been empowered to appoint and determine who sits on Umno’s newly formed council of advisers. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, July 27, 2018.

TENGKU Razaleigh Hamzah is the chairman of Umno’s newly formed council of advisers, said Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

The Umno president said the Gua Musang MP has been empowered to appoint and determine who sits on the council.

“The Supreme Council has decided to form a council of advisers to be chaired by Tengku Razaleigh. It will be among nine councils to be formed by the party,” he told a press conference after the Supreme Council meeting.

He also said the councils had various responsibilities aimed at empowering  Umno as a political party in line with Article 3 of its constitution, which covers Malay culture and the position of Bahasa Malaysia.

Zahid said that eight task forces and 10 secretariats would be set up to address public policies.

In the recent party election, Zahid defeated Tengku Razaleigh and the party’s former youth chief, Khairy Jamaluddin, in the contest for the party’s top post.

Zahid had offered them positions in the party, but the Rembau MP had elected to stay out of the party’s leadership.

However, Zahid had said on Wednesday he had met with Tengku Razaleigh and offered him a role to play in the party.

Zahid said Umno would also lower its membership age to 16.

“To fulfil the desires of the grassroots and to ensure we reform Umno’s organisational structure, constitution, and rules, we have decided to lower the membership age from the present 18 years to 16,” he said.

He said this will be a logical move if Putrajaya goes ahead with its plan to allow those aged 18 to register as voters.

Zahid this was also keeping with the international norm which generally recognised those aged 15 as youth.

“Youths are defined as 15 years of age internationally. We have decided to wait until they are 16, but this move is to ensure we are ready for what the future brings,” he said.

The Bagan Datuk MP said the party will revise its rolls and remove those who have left it or those who had died.

Following the May 9 general election, many leaders and party members left the party to join parties in the Pakatan Harapan pact.

Zahid said this year’s general assembly will be held on September 30 with the wings kicking off their respective meetings on September 29. – July 27, 2018.

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  • A post created with cheap imitation of PH Emminent Council of Elders. Well Ku Li has been side lined for ages until his existence are almost silent as the graves site. He will be very happy to grab anything to give him some attention as beggars can't be choosy. A sad scenerio for someone who was supposed to be the 4th PM after Hussein Onn. Being an insouciant in character as mentioned by a blogger , rescinding as DPM to Hussein Onn was a bad poker play that haunts him till today trailing behind the crafty old fox who came back again as PM today. Ku Li shoud just called it a day as it is never in his fate to be an outstanding politician. Lately his hunger for attention is his follies and weakness exploited by both PAS and Umno to selfishly utilising him for their private agenda

    Posted 7 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

  • My humble observation is YB Ku Li should stay away from mainstream politics. They have to be more realistic in their struggle to unseat PH in the

    Posted 7 years ago by Ramakrishnan Thangavelu · Reply

  • Good luck Umno n BN.

    Posted 7 years ago by Ramakrishnan Thangavelu · Reply