He said Umno would be left with no choice but to take disciplinary action against their deputy president as the council had already instructed both Muhyiddin and Najib Razak “to make nice.”
Abdul Rahman, who is an Umno Supreme Council member, said when the highest body in the party makes a decision, it binds all members, including the president and deputy president.
“So when the deputy disregards the decision that was made unanimously, then he faces the risk of disciplinary action (being taken against him).
“It is as simple as that. In a party there has to be a structure, discipline. If you want to say you are dissatisfied, everyone is dissatisfied,” Rahman, who is also Barisan Nasional strategic communications chief, told reporters after attending a solid waste management lab this morning.
In response to claims 30 branch leaders were unhappy with Najib – as alleged by an anti-Najib group – the Sabahan lawmaker wondered if Muhyiddin would resign if 20,000 branch leaders expressed dissatisfaction with him tomorrow.
“This is only 30, but played out as if our party, which has tens of thousands of branch leaders nationwide, are rejecting the president’s leadership.”
Last weekend, Muhyiddin again criticised Najib’s administration, resulting in another Umno supreme council member Nazri Aziz warning that he would propose for Muhyidin, who was sacked by Najib last year as deputy prime minister, to be suspended from his party post, a move he was ready to make at the party’s supreme council meeting tomorrow, The Star Online reported.
Nazri said he would raise the matter during the meeting, possibly as a formal complaint against Muhyiddin for “failing his duty” as the party’s number two.
Nazri, who is also Tourism and Culture minister added, “I will also recommend that if he is found to be in breach of some sections of our (Umno) constitution, that he be suspended,” the news portal quoted him as saying.
Nazri emphasised that he wanted Muhyiddin to be suspended, not sacked, given his election to the Umno No. 2 post.
“If we ask for Muhyiddin to be sacked, I think that’s too much because all he did was to criticise, but he cannot criticise because he is the deputy,” the Padang Rengas MP said.