Height of irresponsibility for Umno to push for Johor polls: Kit Siang

[superadmin]

KUALA LUMPUR – With the pandemic still raging, DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang slammed Umno for its decision to hold an election in Johor, calling it the “height of irresponsibility”. 

Putting the blame on the state’s ruling party, the Iskandar Puteri MP noted that within the last two weeks, the state has recorded the highest number of Covid-19 cases and related deaths among others in Malaysia.

“Umno intends to use the state election as a platform to rehearse for the upcoming GE15, where the party hopes to restore its political hegemony by reinstating kleptocrats into power,” he said in a statement today.

Lim added that the situation also implies the party’s readiness to put forward a convict of corruption for the position of prime minister.

It is believed that Lim was referring to former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who was described as a “national embarrassment” by Court of Appeal judge Datuk Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil.

- More -