PETALING JAYA: In a surprise move, Gelang Patah Umno permanent chairman Baharum Abdul Ghani announced his exit from the party during the division’s delegates meeting this morning.
Baharum who was formerly Tanjung Kupang assemblyman also posted his decision to leave the party on his Facebook page, which was generally met with support from his Facebook friends.
In a video clip that showed him speaking at the meeting today, Baharum was shown saying how he had never wavered from Umno since he co-founded the Gelang Patah division in 1994.
Despite the past crisis within Umno, Baharum said he had never budged even an inch in Umno’s fight.
“Because of that, specifically Gelang Patah Umno, is very close to me. But today, because of what is happening, Umno in my opinion has become a party of which I don’t know how to describe,” he told the delegates.
Baharum claimed that this was because a majority of the party’s leadership today would not accept the reality of the crisis Umno is facing.
The Gelang Patah Umno division delegates meeting today was opened by supreme council member Abdul Rahman Dahlan.
It is understood that Baharom is also part of Umno rebel group Gabungan Ketua Cawangan Malaysia which had previously issued a statement urging for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down.
I am not in the least surprised that some Umno leaders are leaving Umno, after all especially when they have been in Umno for so long and go nothing or at best some crumbs from the billions the Umno leaders are involved in. You don’t get to see many ministers leaving Umno. do you ?
Talking about the actions of the new MACC chief, he must be seen to be what he is supposed to do and hence have some little chickens arrested to show the people what he is. And the story stops there, Malaysia is very well known to the world that it is one of most corrupt countries in the world. In fact the entire civil services survive on corruption and it would take the newly appointed MACC chief to be out in the street 24 hours a day and for months just to arrest the corrupted civil servants. Didn’t he say that no one should live beyond his or her means and isn’t this PM’s wife spending 6 million dollars on her husband’s credit card living way beyond her means ? But again is it because she is the wife of the PM and again what you say doesn’t apply to her ? Frankly you need an army of one thousand just to go round the country for a year to really clean up the entire country. Or has this country gone beyond the point of salvation ?
I am disppointed that the daughter of AI all she is asking for from this half breed is an apology. O would like to think that no amount of apologies from this shenanigan will atone the atrocities he committed during his 22 years rule as PM. No amount of apologies are enough for what he did