Former Selangor menteri besar Muhammad Muhammad Taib is unfazed at the opposition mocking his re-entry to Umno.

"Let them be syok sendiri (be full of themselves)," he said in a text message to Malaysiakini when asked to respond to the reaction to him rejoining Umno.

"He who laughs first, laughs last (sic)," he added.

Muhammad had in 2013 quit Umno to join PAS and later joined PKR in 2015.

He became the topic of jokes amongst the opposition, which had expected a major setback when Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak summoned top Umno leaders from across the country for an "important announcement" in Kuala Lumpur last Sunday...