ZAHID FINALLY AGREES TO GO ON LEAVE AS PRESSURE ON HIM TO QUIT BECOMES UNBEARABLE: NEXT – NAJIB TO BE SACKED TO PAVE WAY FOR UMNO TO SHAKE OFF ITS CORRUPT PAST?

KUALA LUMPUR: Ahmad Zahid Hamidi tonight announced that he is entrusting his deputy Mohamad Hasan to carry out the duties of Umno president.

However, he says that he has not quit as party president. -FREE MALAYSIA TODAY

Umno president Zahid hands over duties to Mat Hasan

YIELDING to pressure from within the party, Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today announced he has appointed his deputy Mohamad Hasan to perform the duties of party president.

Zahid said he was leaving it to Mohamad to run the party in a bid to stop more lawmakers from leaving.

“Due to the turmoil the party is now facing, I have made the decision to entrust the duties of the president to the deputy president.

“I hope all polemics about the leadership will cease and the leadership at grassroots level will focus on strengthening the party.

“I appeal for the end of defections of members of parliament and assemblymen,” Zahid said tonight at a dialogue organised by the party’s information bureau at the Putra World Trade Centre.

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