Former minister Rafidah Aziz scoffed at Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor’s announcement that she had been sacked from the party for campaigning for Pakatan Harapan.
Rafidah said Umno today was not the Umno she was inducted into in the 1960s and had not attended any Umno branch meetings for years.
Therefore, she said Umno cannot sack a “non-member”.
“I read with sheer amusement on the public announcement that I have been sacked by Umno. What ‘sacking?’.
“After almost half a century of being a member, I can no longer identify with the Umno of today.
“The value system has been eroded. Principles no longer seem to matter,” she told Malaysiakini.
Rafidah said Umno must return to basics if it is to remain relevant and is nothing without its original spirit.
“The very spirit, culture and embodiment of today’s Umno have strayed so far off-tangent from the original Umno, before this present cohort of so-called leaders.
It seems now to be all about personal loyalty, a materialistic culture often driven by greed for power and personal enrichment, and not about serving the people and nation.
“Humility, good manners and mutual respect have been replaced by arrogance,” she said.
Rafidah said that the current Umno has even refused to abide by its own constitution.
“Umno does not even abide by its own constitution and is existing without legal foundation and standing.
“Do I still want to be a member of such an organisation, which also seem to condone kleptocracy? No way,” she said.
Rafidah added that one does not have to be a card-carrying member of any political party to serve.
Rafidah was referring to Umno’s decision to postpone its polls by 18 months in 2016, which deadline expired on April 20.
However, the Registrar of Societies provided Umno further extension even though it was not provided for in the Umno constitution.
MKINI
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