Ahmad Maslan defends Zahid: 'What matters are results'

Ahmad Maslan defends Zahid: 'What matters are results'


Umno secretary-general Ahmad Maslan has come to his party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s defence, following Pasir Salak MP Tajuddin Abdul Rahman’s claim that the latter is a liability to Umno’s survival.

In a screenshot of a message posted on Ahmad’s Twitter, he said what matters most about one’s leadership is the delivered results.

“In a struggle, what is most important are the results. What are the results of the struggle led by the president and assisted by the Umno deputy president and supreme council members so far?” Ahmad added.

He then listed a number of Umno’s achievements under Zahid’s presidency, including their victory in seven by-elections, landslide wins in the Malacca and Johor snap polls, managing to get Umno vice-president Ismail Sabri Yaakob installed as the prime minister as well as confirming Ismail Sabri as their prime minister candidate for the next general election.

“Hopefully this team will successfully bring Umno/BN to win Malaysia again, with a two-thirds victory, for the benefit of the rakyat,” Ahmad said.

Tajuddin Abdul Rahman


Tajuddin yesterday lashed out at Zahid at a press conference, three days after he was removed as a supreme council member.

Aside from branding Zahid as a liability to Umno, he warned that the party will lose the general election if Zahid remains the party president.

Tajuddin also alleged that a group of senior Umno leaders previously gathered to broker a deal that would see Zahid amicably step down as party president as early as 2020.

However, he said the plan fell through after Umno deputy president Mohamed Hasan and former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak backed out.