Noh Omar made minister to regain Selangor, says PM
Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said that when he became prime minister, he wanted to give positions to the leaders of Selangor BN to increase their chances of retaking the state in GE15.
SHAH ALAM: Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has revealed that Selangor Umno chief Noh Omar was chosen as a Cabinet minister to help in efforts to retake Selangor from the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government.
PH captured power in Selangor and four other states in the 2008 general election, and was returned to power in 2013 and 2018 in the state.
Ismail, when choosing the lineup for his Cabinet, said he wanted to appoint Noh as law minister but decided against it as he wanted to give him a post where he could do more in terms of service to the people.
“So, I gave him the entrepreneur development and cooperatives ministry,” he said when speaking at the Selangor BN convention.
SHAH ALAM: Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has revealed that Selangor Umno chief Noh Omar was chosen as a Cabinet minister to help in efforts to retake Selangor from the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government.
PH captured power in Selangor and four other states in the 2008 general election, and was returned to power in 2013 and 2018 in the state.
Ismail, when choosing the lineup for his Cabinet, said he wanted to appoint Noh as law minister but decided against it as he wanted to give him a post where he could do more in terms of service to the people.
“So, I gave him the entrepreneur development and cooperatives ministry,” he said when speaking at the Selangor BN convention.
“At the time I became prime minister, Noh had no post. I thought that if we gave positions to the leaders of Selangor, there was better hope of us seizing back Selangor.”
Ismail then jokingly asked Noh to channel funds to move the election machinery of the Selangor BN to face GE15, that he said was supposed to be “very close”.
Ismail said it was time to stop the infighting within the coalition and focus on bringing the fight to the opposition.
“Also, don’t sabotage the other candidates’ chances in the upcoming elections,” he said.
Addressing concerns over his administration’s willingness to work with PH via the memorandum of understanding (MoU), Ismail clarified that the only objective of doing so was to achieve political stability.
“The agreement (with the opposition) did not involve policy.”
He said the enactment of the anti-hopping bill, political funding bill and the empowerment of Parliament over its own finances were necessary components of the MoU, in the pursuit of political stability.
When asked by reporters on whether the political funding bill would be enacted before GE15, Ismail said the query could be better answered by law minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.
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