BERA: Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob today dismissed alleged talks by Barisan Nasional political rivals that there is a rift and conflict in Umno and other BN component parties as well as between him and BN chairman Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
He said the narrative played by the rivals that the BN candidate for prime minister after the 15th general election (GE15) is Zahid, who is the Umno president, is slander deliberately created to confuse the people and cause a rift in the coalition.
He expressed hope that the slander would be well countered by the statements that had been made by top BN leaders, including Zahid, MCA president Wee Ka Siong, MIC president SA Vigneswaran and Umno deputy president Mohamad Hasan.
All have dismissed talk of a change in the BN poster boy (Ismail) for GE15.
“The perception that the rivals are trying to create is false and slanderous. It is intended to be nothing more than to cause a rift and conflict in Umno.
“But, Alhamdulillah, the solidarity in Umno is sound and we are not influenced by this perception created by our rivals.
“There is no rift in the Umno leadership, and there is no problem between me and Zahid,” Ismail told a press conference after a Kenduri Rakyat reception in Kampung Bohor Baharu, Kuala Bera, here.
Yesterday, Zahid had reiterated the BN stand that Ismail would remain the coalition’s sole candidate for prime minister in GE15.
BN rivals had also claimed that a vote for BN is a vote for Zahid, who is defending the Bagan Datuk parliamentary seat in Perak, to become the prime minister after the general election. - FMT
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