‘Money politics will ruin Umno’

 

(NST) – Umno will be ruined if candidates involved in money politics make it into the leadership, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The former party president and prime minister said the responsibility fell on the delegates to choose the right candidates during the general assembly at the end of this month.

"Though we can't prove it, there are those who are known to use money politics.

"If they elect those who use money politics, that is the end of Umno," he said yesterday.

Should Umno fall, Dr Mahathir stressed that it would also mean "disaster" for the country and Barisan Nasional.

Dr Mahathir also spoke on the political impasse in Perak, saying that both sides of the divide were not being intelligent about the issue.

He said there was too much emotion and politicking and that those involved were not thinking rationally.

"I think both sides are guilty of not making full use of the law properly.

"In all cases, we have to abide by the law. So, study the law and go according to the law.

"If a law is stupid, then change it."