Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching has lambasted BN chief Ahmad Zahid Hamidi for “weaponising” the issue of citizenship for children born overseas to Malaysian mothers.

Worse, she said, was how Zahid told the BN convention last weekend that he would “whisper” the issue, which was made an election promise, into the prime minister’s ear.

“Being the president of Umno, if Zahid and Umno are serious about...