Noh said that he would rather be sacked than suspended, and the request was accepted by Ahmad Zahid.
KUALA LUMPUR:"Better to sack me than suspend me” - This was what former Selangor Umno chief Tan Sri Noh Omar said when he was told of the party's decision to suspend him for six years."The party president in his address at the Umno supreme council meeting announced that a few members would be sacked and suspended.
"Of all a sudden, I heard my name being announced that I was to be suspended for six years," he told reporters after leaving the ongoing Umno supreme council meeting at Menara Datuk Onn on Friday night . He questioned the decision made by the party president as he has yet to be hauled up before the party's disciplinary board."What sort of 'jungle law' is this?" a visibly shaken Noh said after storming out of the meeting."He accepted my suggestion.On Thursday , Ahmad Zahid said that the party is going for"mass cleansing", including"saboteurs" and those who have"shot themselves in the foot".
Earlier, Umno leaders began arriving for the highly anticipated supreme council meeting at Menara Onn on Friday night. The meeting was closely watched by political observers amidst mounting speculation that disciplinary action will be taken against the former health minister Khairy Jamaluddin.
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