Akmal nafi pemimpin parti dicucuk hidung

KETUA Pemuda, Datuk Dr Muhamada Akmal Saleh menyangkal dakwaan bahawa pemimpin UMNO ibarat dicucuk hidung.

“Saya adalah bukti pemimpin yang tidak dicucuk hidung. Saya sudah beberapa kali berbeza pendapat dalam parti, namun ia sesuatu yang dihormati dan diraikan,” katanya kepada Khairy Jamaluddin.

Beliau juga berkata UMNO terbuka menerima semula bekas ahli yang dipecat atau digantung termasuk Khairy, Shahril Hamdan dan ramai pemimpin lain untuk kembali menyertai parti itu.

Bagaimanapun, bekas pemimpin dan ahli yang terlibat perlu mematuhi syarat kerana UMNO mempunyai struktur.

Menurutnya, sikap Presiden UMNO, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi yang menerima semula Datuk Seri Tajuddin Abdul Rahman yang merupakan bekas pemimpin parti itu baru-baru ini melambangkan jiwa besar beliau sebagai pemimpin nombor satu parti.

“Meskipun presiden dihentam teruk oleh Tajuddin, beliau (Ahmad Zahid) tetap menerima semula pemimpin itu.

“Sekiranya UMNO berada dalam satu keluarga, saya percaya kita mampu ditegakkan. UMNO tidak mampu untuk hilang walaupun satu kerana semua orang ada kekuatan masing-masing,” katanya ketika ditemui pemberita selepas bergotong-royong membersihkan Tabika Jabatan Kemajuan Masyarakat (Kemas) semasa Misi Bantuan Banjir Pemuda Barisan Nasional (BN) di Kampung Serongga, di Pasir Mas, semalam.

Mengulas lanjut, Muhamad Akmal memberitahu, bekas pemimpin dan ahli boleh kembali semula kepada UMNO sekiranya mereka masih sayangkan parti itu.

 

I’m proof no yes-men in Umno, says Akmal

UMNO Youth chief Dr Akmal Saleh has welcomed the willingness of his former party colleague Khairy Jamaluddin to return to Umno, and believes the party has room for the ex-minister and his ideals.

Akmal, who has courted controversy for his outspoken barbs, particularly against DAP, said his presence in Umno was proof that the party was not solely composed of yes-men but welcomed differing opinions.

He added that Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had always welcomed any proposal or opinion conveyed by party leaders.

“I am proof that being in Umno doesn’t necessarily mean that one is a yes-man. Although I hold certain views that contradict the party president’s, he has never once asked me to stop airing my views,” he said in Pasir Mas, yesterday.

Khairy, who was sacked from Umno last January for breaching party discipline during the 2022 general election, had said he was willing to return to Umno if the party committed to changing for the better.

However, he said he would not return if it meant he had to become a yes-man. He said Umno would need to accept him as someone who remained loyal to the party but had his own ideals.

He was responding to Zahid, who said Umno was open to welcoming sacked or suspended members if they proved their determination to return to the party.

Zahid cited the lifting of Tajuddin Abdul Rahman’s six-year suspension from Umno, saying the former Pasir Salak MP had sent four appeal letters to be reinstated as a member.

 

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