A senior member of Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud's Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu(PBB) has criticised crisis-ridden Sarawak National Party's James Wong Kim Min, fighting for his political survival, of using outsiders as scapegoats for his present political predicament.

"Snap members have openly delivered a verdict for James Wong to go," PBB assemblyperson for Simunjan and supreme council member Mohd Narodeen Majais said in a statement published in local newspapers in response to Wong's criticism of Abdul Taib for what he described as his tacit encouragement to his detractors to go against him.

"The ultimate deciders of any political organisation are the members who send their representatives as delegates and observers. And the vast majority of Snap delegates and observers have spoken out loud and clear. There is no necessity to look for a scapegoat outside the party," added Narodeen, who is also chairman of the Sarawak Backbenchers Club.