Umno on road to ruin with PH-DAP ties, says Annuar

 

MPs from Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Harapan at a meeting today about working on a coalition government. (Fahmi Fadzil Facebook pic)

PETALING JAYA: Umno leaders have been warned that the party is on a “path of ruin” should it forge working ties with PH and DAP in forming a new federal government.

Ketereh Umno division chief Annuar Musa said Umno was being dragged into working with a coalition that does not share the same ideals.

He said Umno was “pushing away our fellow brothers and sisters in Islam” in PAS and Bersatu, and choosing to work together with “liberals and socialists” in PH and DAP. “And that’s leading us down a dangerous road,” he said.

If Umno still pursued ties with DAP, “then eventually the Malays will forget us”. He pointed out that BN had secured three million votes in the general election, the same figure as that of Umno members.

“The only ones who supported us in GE15 were none other than our own members, the rest of them supported PN,” he said.

He said Umno rejected working with DAP because there was no common ground between the parties. “DAP’s party constitution is a socialist and liberal one. We (Umno) are not socialists or liberals, we’re conservatives,” he said.

Annuar urged Umno-BN to accept the people’s mandate and become the opposition in the Dewan Rakyat as the people had clearly rejected the coalition in favour of Perikatan Nasional.

He rejected an assertion that PAS and Bersatu would bury Umno if BN tied up with PN to form a government. He said both parties had supported Umno in past by-elections. “Where does their action say that they wanted to ‘kill’ us?,” he said.

Annuar said a formula dubbed “going solo” was created by the party’s leadership and hidden from the party members to abandon PAS and Bersatu for a personal agenda.

“That formula is a failed formula, and it is proving to be a disaster,” he said.

Annuar also said that party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had plotted this formula when he met with several PH leaders between July and August 2020 to show his support for PKR president Anwar Ibrahim to become prime minister.

“We received reports that the president had a meeting in Ampang with some PH leaders including Anwar and Loke Siew Fook (of DAP), where they planned to show support for Anwar to become prime minister,” he said.

The party had not given the matter much attention but doubts arose when Anwar announced he had the numbers to form a government following Muhyiddin Yassin’s resignation.

“Fast forward, it was proven that the president had signed a letter to support Anwar to become prime minister,” he said. - FMT