Its chief, Bung Moktar Radin, said Sabah Umno believed it had no reason to quit GRS as the state government had been doing its job.

“Sabah Umno is of the opinion that GRS must be maintained, in line with the people’s mandate. GRS will be intact,” Bung, one of three GRS deputy chairmen, told FMT.

“Firstly, it’s because we just had the state elections and secondly there’s no need to pull out from the (state) government now because it is still functioning and it has the people’s confidence to manage the economy, state and the people.

“Sabah Umno will decide our own future.”

Bung, however, said that he, as the Kinabatangan MP, and Kimanis MP Mohamad Alamin will follow the party’s decision at the federal level.

“If we don’t, then that would mean we will have to quit the party,” he said.

He also said Sabah Umno had not set any conditions to GRS to remain with the ruling state coalition at the moment.

“I believe we can discuss anything,” he said.

Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had, after a four-hour Supreme Council meeting last night, announced that the party was officially withdrawing its support for Muhyiddin.

Zahid had also asked Muhyiddin to step down as the government had failed to fulfil the two requirements the party had set to justify support for the administration.