Umno’s supreme council ordered its Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh to stop playing up the issue of socks with the word Allah and the calls to boycott convenience store KK Mart.
Supreme council member Bung Moktar Radin said there was no question of agreeing or disagreeing with Akmal’s action of pressuring KK Mart on the issue given that the decision had already been made by the Umno leadership who wanted the matter stopped.
According to a report by Berita Harian, he said Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi requested that the matter be dropped and no longer made into an issue.
“The Umno president has asked Akmal (to stop it) and explained that KK Mart is not planning to persist with the matter, so we accept that (prolonging) the matter needs to stop.
“The Yang di-Pertuan Agong also called on all parties to stop taking advantage of the issue and for me, that is enough,” Bung said when met by reporters at Sabah Umno’s breaking of fast ceremony with the media and orphans at Kota Kinabalu last night.
It is unclear when the Umno supreme council told Akmal to stop harping on the KK Mart issue.
Two weeks ago, Umno secretary-general Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki said the supreme council had given its full support for the Youth chief’s stance on the socks scandal.
Meanwhile, the Kinabatangan MP also expressed his regret at the accusations by former Petagas assemblyperson James Ligunjang, who asked the people of Sabah to reject Umno due to the KK Mart issue.
“Sabah Umno is not involved, but I saw James Ligunjang’s statement linking Sabah Umno with KK Mart and asking the people of Sabah to reject Umno because they say we are extremists.
“After 25 years of not appearing in public, now suddenly he associates Sabah Umno with extremists. We are not extremists, I meet non-Muslim friends every day, eat together, work together, and when we go on the ground, we meet many non-Muslims.
“We also have non-Muslim leaders and members in Sabah Umno, so after this, our non-Muslim members can ask James to keep quiet,” he said.
Bung also warned against associating Sabah Umno with the KK Mart issue and what is happening in the peninsula with Sabah. - Mkini
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