PAS man warns those attempting to throw party into disarray

 

There is speculation that PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang (right) and his deputy, Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, won’t be contesting their posts. (Bernama pic)

PETALING JAYA: 

A PAS leader today warned members plotting to throw the party into disarray at its polls later this year that they risk being cast into the political wilderness.

In a Facebook post, Dewan Ulama committee member Mokhtar Senik said PAS members should not allow themselves to be easily swayed by calls for the president and deputy president’s posts to be contested.

He said there was a possibility that external parties were pushing such narratives as they wanted to see a change in PAS’s leadership.

Mokhtar Senik.

“Those who attempt to throw the party into disarray will end up going down a dark path and will eventually vanish.

“And once PAS rejects you, it would be very difficult to share a stage (with the party).”

Earlier this morning, FMT reported that PAS was likely to hold a contest for the party’s top two posts, for the first time in a decade, at its elections later this year.

A source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said a contest for the presidency and the deputy presidency would be held if Abdul Hadi Awang, who has been the party’s president since 2002, decides not to defend the post.

The source said that some in the party are urging the Marang MP to step down due to his ailing health.

According to the source, there has been talk that PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man would also be stepping aside, although the pro-ulama faction is pushing for him to remain the party’s number two, a post he won in 2015.

Mokhtar went on to call for Hadi’s leadership and that of his deputy, Tuan Ibrahim, to be defended. - FMT