PETALING JAYA: Umno veteran Shahrir Samad said Johor Bahru Umno will not be part of Muhyiddin Yassin’s infamous “scheme of things” and will not give up any constituency that it contested in the last general election (GE14) to PPBM.
“One or two state Umno leaders may have said they support Muhyiddin but these are states that have none or no significant number of seats held by PPBM.
“Using the examples of Perlis and Sabah is very lame.”
Perlis Umno chief Shahidan Kassim had yesterday said he would continue to cooperate with Perikatan Nasional (PN) in GE15.
“It’s very easy for him to say this as PPBM did not win any seat there. Is he ready to hand over one or two Barisan Nasional seats to PPBM?” Shahrir said in a Facebook post today.
In the 2018 general election, PKR won the Johor Bahru parliamentary seat and the two state constituencies within the seat. Shahrir failed to retain the Johor Bahru parliamentary seat, which he had held for six terms, being defeated by Akmal Nasir, while the state seats were won by Mohd Izhar Ahmad (Larkin) and Andrew Chen Kah Eng (Stulang).
The “scheme of things” Shahrir was referring to involves an alleged leaked audio recording of a PPBM Supreme Council meeting before the political turmoil in February last year.
In the clip, the voice of a man, said to be Muhyiddin, was heard proposing that PPBM join forces with Umno to form the largest Malay political party in the country.
He was heard saying that this was the “scheme of things” that the party needed to follow to shore up political influence. He said positions in government-linked companies could be offered to them as incentives.
Shahrir said Umno had two clusters now — the “minister cluster” and “court cluster”. The “minister cluster” refers to the Umno ministers in PN while the “court cluster” refers to the group of party leaders facing corruption charges.
He said ministers from his party were seen to be making “loud noises” against their party leaders in order to stay relevant in PN.
“Maybe they are very comfortable because they escaped falling into the court cluster. So to stay relevant, their voices must be a little louder against party members,” the former Johor Bahru MP said.
“I am in the court cluster for failing to heed the advice of the MACC, which had suggested that I confess and pay back the money I received from former prime minister Najib Razak if I wanted to avoid being charged.
“The officer interrogating me even said I could pay in instalments,” the former Felda chairman said.
But Shahrir said he refused and maintained his stand that the money was part of a political donation used for party activities in Johor Bahru. - FMT
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