PETALING JAYA: Majority of the Umno supreme council members are supportive of withdrawing support for Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin as the Prime Minister, insisted Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan (pic).
The Umno secretary-general explained that 50 out of 56 supreme council members had signed a form to agree with the withdrawal of support for Muhyiddin prior to the Umno supreme council meeting last Wednesday.
"The differences of opinion only arose on when we should pull our support," he said, when contacted on Monday (July 12).
Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had announced that the party would withdraw its support for Muhyiddin as the Prime Minister after a virtual supreme council meeting on Wednesday night that stretched till the early hours of Thursday.
Ahmad Maslan added that during the meeting late Wednesday night (July 7), only a small number of the supreme council members had agreed to delay the withdrawal of support for Muhyiddin.
"Some suggested we should do it when Parliament reconvenes, or some other time," he said.
He also noted that the supreme council has the right to interpret the decision of the Umno General Assembly, who had agreed to let the president and the supreme council members to decide the exact time to withdraw support from Muhyiddin.
He also revealed that from the total of 56 supreme council members, only two did not sign.
He also reiterated that the supreme council also agreed that it would not cooperate with PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim or DAP, as the party wants to lead if it manages to form a government.
On whether the president's decision to pull out support for Muhyiddin means that Umno ministers holding government positions needed to resign, he said that Umno only wanted Muhyiddin to resign.
"That is what we are asking for, we never asked anyone else to resign," said Ahmad Maslan. - Star
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