Who are you to rebuke Umno, Akmal ticks off LGE

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Who are you to rebuke

Umno, Akmal ticks off

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-31 Dec 2024, 04:59 PM

The Umno Youth chief says the upcoming rally to express solidarity with Najib Razak has nothing to do with the unity government.

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Umno Youth chief Dr Akmal Saleh said should Bagan MP Lim Guan Eng continue to criticise Umno, more of the party’s members would take part in the rally. (Facebook pic)

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Umno Youth chief Dr Akmal Saleh says Lim Guan Eng has no authority to chastise his party over its decision to organise a rally in solidarity with incarcerated former prime minister Najib Razak next week.

Akmal said the Jan 6 rally had “nothing to do with the unity government” and insisted it was only for the former Umno president.

“Who are you to rebuke us? Who are you to order Umno around?” he said in a video which was uploaded on Facebook.

Akmal also said should Lim continue to criticise Umno, more of the party’s members would take part in the rally.

“To my fellow members, he (Guan Eng) has started (speaking out), what are you waiting for?”

Earlier today, Lim, the DAP chairman, hit out at Umno for joining hands with PAS to hold a rally in solidarity with Najib.

The Bagan MP said the collaboration between the two parties would raise doubts about Umno’s sincerity in being a partner in the unity government led by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

“Umno must be aware that any joint event with PAS, an opposition party, will also raise doubts about Umno’s own political stability and its position in the unity government,” he said in a press conference.

However, Umno Supreme Council member Puad Zarkashi had since clarified that his party had planned for a rally long before PAS announced it was holding one.

PAS’s rally will be held on the same day that the Court of Appeal will hear Najib’s application for leave to adduce fresh evidence in his appeal to serve the remainder of his jail term under house arrest, which he claims was issued in a supplementary order to the pardons board’s Feb 2 announcement.

Over 200 busloads of Najib’s supporters are expected to attend the rally, comprising Umno and PAS members. Bersatu leaders are also expected to be in attendance.

Separately, Kelantan Umno chief Ahmad Jazlan Yaakub said there was no need for Lim to get antsy over the gathering by Umno members.

In a statement, Jazlan said the party would not prevent anyone from joining the rally.

“There’s no need for Guan Eng to be afraid of his own shadow.”

He also said that there was no political agenda behind PAS ordering its supporters to back Najib’s cause.