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Annuar Musa: Senior Umno leaders ‘manipulating’ grassroots by claiming party bullied by Bersatu

Umno supreme council member Tan Sri Annuar Musa has accused his party’s senior leadership of 'manipulating' its own grassroots — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 — Umno supreme council member Tan Sri Annuar Musa has accused his party’s senior leadership of “manipulating” its own grassroots, by claiming that the party is being bullied by its now ally Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia.

In an interview with Utusan Malaysia’s Sunday edition Mingguan Malaysia, the Ketereh MP also reportedly said some senior party leaders have not provided the full story on the party’s attempt to cooperate with political enemy DAP.

“The problem is now manipulation is largely being done by the leaders at the top. But the full information did not reach the grassroots, and we then used the grassroots to support our ways and our ideas.

“However, we did not fully explain to Umno’s grassroots. The grassroots were not told on attempts to work with DAP. There are matters that we have discussed with Bersatu that were not extended [to the grassroots].

“What was told however is that something is wrong with Bersatu, evil and we poisoned the minds of the grassroots in that manner. So when the grassroots make the decision, it was done in a condition where they had received the wrong information,” he reportedly said.

Annuar, however, said that Umno has also taken part in bullying their allies, citing the recent Perak political crisis where Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu from Bersatu was replaced by Datuk Saarani Mohamad from Umno after the former lost a vote of confidence in the state assembly.