Tajuddin just wants to embarrass Umno, says Puad

 

Tajuddin Abdul Rahman was impatient for a change of government so he could become a minister, says Puad Zarkashi.

PETALING JAYA: Umno Supreme Council member Puad Zarkashi has accused Tajuddin Abdul Rahman of seeking to embarrass the party by making claims about support for opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Puad said that Tajuddin’s claims were untrue and irrelevant. “He just wants to embarrass Umno,” Puad said in an online posting.

The only reason Tajuddin had admitted to signing a statutory declaration supporting Anwar to be prime minister in 2020 was that Tajuddin was impatient for a change of government so he could become a minister, Puad said.

“But Umno has not changed its stance on Anwar and DAP. Don’t trust what Tajuddin says,” he said, referring to the party’s stand last year that it would not support the PKR president or DAP in any political arrangement.

Puad also questioned why Tajuddin, who is Pasir Salak MP, had supported the memorandum of understanding between Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s governnment and Pakatan Harapan, considering that it only benefitted PKR and DAP.

As for Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi meeting Anwar, Puad said it was not unusual at all. “They were trying to build a big tent. But Umno remains and BN will go solo in the coming elections as it did during the Johor and Melaka elections,” he said.

Tajuddin was removed from the Umno supreme council last week. On Monday, he claimed that Zahid had persuaded Umno MPs to sign declarations in support of Anwar. He also alleged that Zahid had signed such a declaration. - FMT