Ex-aide: Rivals claim Bersatu can form govt if Muhyiddin put to 'rest'

A former aide to Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin has alleged that the latter’s rivals are putting out a new spin to justify efforts to oust him.

Marzuki Mohamad said the rivals claim that if Muhyiddin (above) is put to “rest”, they can form the government.

“Some said the president (Muhyiddin) must be put to ‘rest’ because that is allegedly a condition by a party in the current government for Bersatu to be accepted to form a government with them,” he said in a Facebook post today.

However, Marzuki questioned whether the offer is genuine.

It is believed that the government party referred to by Marzuki is Umno, whose president, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, withdrew support from Muhyiddin as prime minister in 2021.

Zahid, however, has made clear that he plans to continue aligning Umno with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s Pakatan Harapan in the next general election.

Madani ‘Trojan horse’

Marzuki’s allegations were made in a veiled response to Machang MP Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal’s appearance on former law minister Zaid Ibrahim’s podcast yesterday.

Wan Fayhsal justified the need for Bersatu deputy president Hamzah Zainudin to succeed Muhyiddin.

However, he did not mention anything about this being part of efforts to seize power by forming a new government.

Instead, the Machang MP, who was suspended from Bersatu for one term last week, claimed there was a “Trojan horse” within the party that was aligned with Anwar.

“In my party, there is a Madani Trojan horse, whose intention is to divide the party using all these issues.

“So that they can hand Bersatu on a silver plate to Anwar (and say) ‘look, Perikatan Nasional is now in dysfunction because of internal strife in Bersatu’,” he said.

Marzuki also responded to Wan Fayhsal’s lament that Muhyiddin unilaterally decided to reject joining the coalition government in the aftermath of the 15th general election.

On this matter, Marzuki said Muhyiddin was within his rights to do so as PN’s established stance was not to partner with DAP.

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