SD to remove Peja baseless, attempt to divide Perak Bersatu, says Kader Maideen
PETALING JAYA: Claims that there is a statutory declaration (SD) calling for the replacement of the Perak chairman of Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu), Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu, are baseless.
The Taiping Bersatu division chief, Kader Maideen Hussain, said that it is not part of Bersatu's culture to use SDs for the appointment of state leadership body chiefs.
He stated that the report claiming SDs exist from Perak Bersatu division chiefs to replace the current chairman is not true.
'The appointment of the chief is entirely the prerogative of Bersatu president, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, and any decision or appointment made by the President is fully supported without any doubt.
'The dissemination of false and baseless news from unnamed sources is deeply regrettable, and the motives of the news portal in question are questionable. We have no time for malicious attempts to divide unity within Perak Bersatu,' he said in a statement on Wednesday (April 30), reported by Malay daily, Sinar Harian.
Kader Maideen added that Ahmad Faizal's leadership as Perak Bersatu chairman and Perak Perikatan Nasional (PN) chairman has the full mandate from Muhyiddin, who is also the national chairman of PN.
On Tuesday (April 29), a news portal claimed that 16 out of 24 Perak Bersatu division chiefs had signed an SD requesting a review or replacement of Ahmad Faizal's position as state chairman.
The action reportedly stemmed from dissatisfaction over how Ahmad Faizal handled the request to switch seating arrangements between two Bersatu assemblymen — Datuk Zainol Fadzi Paharudin and Nadziruddin Mohamed Bandi — in the State Assembly.
However, speaking to the daily, Ahmad Faizal chose not to comment on the alleged existence of the SD calling for his replacement.
He took this approach, citing that the report merely quoted unnamed sources.
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