‘Saya tak pernah ada masalah dengan presiden’

BEKAS Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob mendedahkan beliau tidak pernah mempunyai sebarang masalah dengan Presiden UMNO, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi walaupun ada yang cuba menggambarkan wujud ketegangan antara mereka.

Malah Ahli Parlimen Bera itu turut mengakui, rasa hormatnya kepada Ahmad Zahid mengatasi segalanya walaupun beliau menjadi Perdana Menteri kesembilan atas kapasiti sebagai Naib Presiden UMNO ketika itu.

Kerana itu katanya, setiap tindakan dilakukan secara berhati-hati demi menjaga hati pelbagai pihak.

“Suka atau tidak, dia adalah presiden parti, saya orang nombor tiga. Mesti saya hormat dia.

“Punya saya nak jaga hati mereka ini, waktu saya jadi Menteri Pertahanan, jadi TPM, PM maksimum (pengiring) berpuluh-puluh orang jadi pengiring saya.

“Kerana nak jaga hati mereka, saya tidak pernah minta dalam mesyuarat Majlis Kerja Tertinggi UMNO untuk turunkan ke tingkat empat. Sebab kalau saya berada di sana, presiden dengar bunyi siren dia tersentuh atau terasa hati.

“Jadi saya masuk tingkat tiga ke parkir dan terus naik atas. Jadi polis tak boleh buka siren. Saya sengaja buat macam tu sebab nak jaga hati presiden saya,” katanya dalam Podcast Keluar Sekejap (KS) yang dikendalikan oleh bekas Menteri Kesihatan, Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar dan bekas Ketua Penerangan UMNO, Shahril Hamdan.

 

 

‘I never had problem with our president’

FORMER prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob revealed how his relation with Umno president Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is good although some parties gave a negative picture.

In fact, the Bera Member of Parliament said his respect for the party president remains high although he was made the ninth prime minister in his capacity as an Umno vice president.

For that very reason, he said everything he did was meant to safeguard others’ feeling and sensitivity.

“Like it or not, he is our president. I came third, so I must respect him.

“To take care of their feeling, when I was minister of defence, as the deputy premier and then as prime minister, I had dozens of bodyguards.

“But I never requested for the Supreme Council meeting on the fourth floor because each time I went there, I didnt the president to hear their  siren, which could be obstructive to him.

“So, I entered the parking lot on Level 3, and the policemen were not allowed to turn on their siren.

“I did that simply to take care of his and other people feeling,” he said in a Podcast Keluar Sekejap (KS) conducted by former health minister Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar dan former Umno information chief Shahril Hamdan.

Ismail also said how he feel hurt when some Umno leaders stayed away from him when he was the prime minister.

 

 

 

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