Ex-BN leaders lack resilience: Zahid
BEAUFORT: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has described former Umno or Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders who are frustrated and leave the party as leaders who lack resilience and patience.
Ahmad Zahid said such leaders, whether at the national or Sabah state level, lacked the resilience and patience and eventually made a wrong decision because they were then angry, depressed and frustrated.
“We in Umno and we in BN, despite being pressured, despite being ‘kicked’ (with various allegations and slander), we remain patient in Umno and BN,” he said at a meet-the-people event in Dataran Bagandang yesterday.
Also present were Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman, Beaufort Umno division chief Datuk Isnin Aliasnih and Deputy Minister of Women, Family and Community Development, who is also Beaufort member of Parliament, Datuk Azizah Mohd Dun.
However, Ahmad Zahid said Umno and BN members and leaders who were highly determined and patient remained loyal to the party and continued their struggles on the awareness that only Umno and BN could champion the cause of the people.
“(This was) because no other party can champion the cause of the people, no other party can fight for the people’s needs, no other party for the people to depend on except Umno and the other BN component parties.”
Ahmad Zahid said he had increased his confidence in the ability of Umno and BN to champion the cause of the people not because he was nostalgic or reminiscing on the excellent services provided to the people but instead he wanted to state the commitment of the party to continue its excellent service.
“We are determined, as in the past, that if we have a good track record, if we have the excellence, our determination (is that) we will be doing better for the whole population,” he said. – Bernama