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Dipetik daripada Free Malaysiatoday
SEREMBAN: All is not well for Negeri Sembilan PAS Commissioner Zulkefly Mohamad Omar. The campaign to remove him from the state leadership appears to have gained momentum since last Sunday’s divisional election in Seremban.
Zulkefly has not held any divisional post since he lost in the 2009 race for the Seremban division chief’s post. In last weekend’s election, he felt compelled to withdraw when it became apparent that he did not have enough support to beat incumbent MK Ibrahim Abdul Rahman.
Since 2009, his detractors here have been pushing the PAS national leadership to strip him of his position as state chief on the ground that he does not command grassroots support, and that pressure is likely to increase now.
For this year’s election, he thought he could depend on his hardcore supporters to silence his critics and outclass MK Ibrahim. But most of his men were defeated in the youth wing’s election and his women supporters were barred from voting last weekend.
In the election of the divisional leadership, PAS allows for 15 youth delegates and 15 women delegates to vote.
Youth members in the division have been among the most vocal of Zulkefly’s critics, and they walked the talk by ensuring the defeat of his men in the youth election. Most of those elected to the wing, including its chief, Zulkifli Mohd Zaki, are aligned to MK Ibrahim.
Zulkefly’s camp did win the majority of positions in the women’s wing. Its chief, Normah Suhor, is a staunch supporter. However, something went wrong in the process of choosing women’s delegates to Sunday’s election.
“Normah and her people made a big blunder,” a youth leader told FMT on condition of anonymity. “The 15 names they sent to the division were not chosen in an open and full committee meeting. They were chosen by Normah and committee members aligned to her.”
The committee members aligned to MK Ibrahim lodged a complaint and PAS’s national leadership decided that only Normah could vote on behalf of the women’s wing. The other 14 delegates were disqualified.
Increasing pressure
According to the anonymous source, Zulkefli himself blundered when he ordered 18 branches aligned to him to boycott the divisional election with the intention of making it null and void for lack of a quorum. There are 36 branches in the Seremban division. The other 18 are aligned to MK Ibrahim. Each of the branches is entitled to send four delegates to vote.
Zulkefly’s strategy backfired. PAS deputy secretary general Takiyuddin Hassan announced that more than one third of the delegates were present and the election was therefore valid.
This was apparently why Zulkefly withdrew from the contest. “It was probably to save his image,” said the source. “He would have been trounced.”
The source confirmed that MK Ibrahim’s men would now increase their pressure on the national party leadership to replace Zulkelfy as PAS chief for Negeri Sembilan.
Negeri Sembilan PKR and DAP may not be too happy. The two parties have worked well with Zulkefly.
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