‘No calls to sack me when I asked Pak Lah to resign’
(FMT) – Former DPM Muhyiddin Yassin illustrates the double standards in Umno after members hankered for his sacking when he spoke out against Najib Razak.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has remarked at the irony of how no Umno members insisted he step down from his post after he spoke to his former boss Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to relinquish his leadership of the country.
Muhyiddin said this to a 1,000-strong audience here last night when relating to them how he had asked Abdullah, fondly known as Pak Lah, to resign as prime minister in 2008 after Umno’s dismal showing in the 12th General Election that year.
“I met (current Prime Minister) Najib (Razak) after the elections in his office, he was then the DPM, and asked him what his thoughts were on the elections, and he said it was not good for the party.
I told him, ‘This is the reason I’m meeting you – to ask you to take over the country’s leadership from Pak Lah’ – that is history,” he told the crowd at the Kampung Sungai Ampat Community Hall yesterday.
“There were no calls to ‘sack Muhyiddin’ then.”
