Kuala Lumpur: Khairy Jamaluddin and Shahril Sufian Hamdan have joined Tan Sri Noh Omar’s claim that Umno had sacked and suspended them without complying with party procedures.
Khairy on his Instagram Story reposted a news article claiming the sentences meted out following a Supreme Council meeting Friday did not follow due process, and concurred with the report.
“Confirmed no due process. No show cause letter, no disciplinary hearing,” the former Rembau MP wrote.
“Summarily and unilaterally sacked from a party I have been loyal to for 23 years.”
His accusation was echoed by Shahril in a brief 1:53-minute video posted on his Twitter account. “Yesterday I was suspended for six years by the party Umno, I was never called by the disciplinary board, I never received any letters, I also don’t know what reason they used to take this action,” he said.
Shahril also suggested that Umno had created excuses to justify his suspension.
“I did read a bit of the message that was purposely made viral, purportedly perhaps because I resigned as information chief, then I asked the president to take responsibility after the general election losses, and also I made proposal videos to make changes in Umno including to have an R&D department.
“I’m not sure if people can accept whether these are reasonable reasons. Maybe if they see that people cannot accept, they can create new reasons. But never mind, I think we all can guess the main reason or motive that they have to do this.
“That’s why when people say appeal, I think, even if appeal, how to appeal, when even the original procedure did not use the proper procedure, it can’t be that when we appeal, it will suddenly be ok?” he asked.
Sembrong MP Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein shared a brief statement for the first time since he was handed his six-year suspension Friday.
“Their evil must not make us lose our good,” he wrote in his caption for a photo uploaded to his social media account.
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