Rumours rife of split in PAS; tide may turn in PH’s favour for looming state polls

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A RIFT in PAS between its president Tan Sri Hadi Awang and his deputy Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man has sparked a discord within the Islamist party, a development that the Pakatan Harapan-Barisan Nasional (PH-BN) alliance should capitalise fully to tame the so-called green tsunami effect in the run-up to the upcoming state polls.

With rumours rife of the split between the two prominent leaders, Hadi is said to have resorted to seek election funding from former two-time premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad instead of relying solely on funding from its Perikatan Nasional (PN) ally Bersatu whose bank accounts have been frozen by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

In an earlier report, UMNO president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has also hinted that PAS is about to split but he did not reveal the possible source of the split.

“Interestingly, Hadi’s collaboration with Dr Mahathir by endorsing the latter’s Malay Proclamation agenda has placed the cleric at odds with descendants of the 1985 Memali incident,” a source familiar with PAS told FocusM on condition of anonymity.

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