Padang Terap Bersatu division chief leaves party

Padang Terap Bersatu Division chief Syed Sobri Syed Hashim announced his resignation today and has left the party with immediate effect.

In a press conference, he claimed that more than 1,000 Bersatu members from the division as well as four leaders and committee members (AJK) of several branches in the Padang Terap division were also leaving the party.

Syed Sobri said this was because they have lost trust and confidence in the party’s top leadership who were seen to be only rhetorical rather than fighting for the people, and who only looked after their own interests.

"The act of leaving the party is voluntary and without coercion nor was a certain reward offered. This move was driven by a sense of loss of trust and confidence in the Bersatu leadership. When we were fighting for the people, the superiors classified leaders like me as second class," he explained.

Syed Sobri, who was BN’s Kuala Nerang assemblyperson from 2008 to 2013, said the move to leave the party had nothing to do with GE15 or pursuing a position.

He added that all the individuals who followed him out of the party would gather under an NGO that he had established - Penggerak Masyarakat Padang Terap - which will provide support to the BN candidate for the Padang Terap parliamentary constituency in the upcoming polls.

- Bernama

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