A Bersatu supreme council member has lambasted former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak for blaming former premier Muhyiddin Yassin over the country's poor economic performance.

This came after Najib hit out at Muhyiddin for declaring a state of emergency earlier this year, which the former said caused Malaysia to slip into a technical recession again and perform worse than its neighbours in the third quarter of the year.

"Yes, it is true that our country is...