Umno Youth chief Datuk Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki stated that it was a baseless allegation because the prime minister has no prerogative to intrude with the nation’s judicial system. ― Image by Yusof Mat Isa
By Shahrin Aizat Noorshahrizam
Monday, 22 Aug 2022 9:54 PM MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 22 — Umno Youth chief Datuk Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki rubbished claims that the celebration’s president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had urged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob to intrude with former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s ongoing attraction in opposition to his SRC Worldwide conviction on the Federal Court docket.
He stated that it was a baseless allegation because the prime minister has no prerogative to intrude with the nation’s judicial system.
“What’s the logic in urging the prime minister to intervene within the SRC case that has reached the Federal Court docket stage?
“In any case, it just isn’t the prime minister who appoints the Federal Court docket judges presently, not like in the times of Tun Mahathir who was concerned within the collection of judges as claimed by Tommy Thomas, in his capability as a former lawyer basic in his guide My Story: Justice within the Wilderness,” he stated in an announcement on Fb at this time.
Asyraf was responding to an Astro Awani report which claimed that nearly all of Umno division chiefs had rejected a movement from the celebration’s prime brass to persuade Ismail Sabri to intrude with the judicial course of.
A supply near the matter knowledgeable Astro Awani that they didn’t agree with the directions issued by the Umno management, including that a few of the division heads in attendance have been compelled to attend or danger dropping their likelihood to contest the fifteenth basic election (GE15).
Earlier at this time, it was reported that Umno’s emergency assembly appears to have invited extra questions than solutions, as conflicting info abounds on the factors of debate and the following selections.
For a begin, the precise variety of division chiefs who turned up for the assembly continues to be unknown, with Sungai Besar division chief Datuk Seri Jamal Yunos claiming that every one division leaders current had unanimously urged Ismail Sabri to name the following basic election (GE15).
Najib’s ultimate attraction in opposition to his conviction of misappropriating funds from SRC Worldwide enters its ultimate leg tomorrow on the Federal Court docket.
The listening to on the nation’s supreme court docket on the Palace of Justice had been scheduled to happen over 9 days, from August 15 to August 19 and can resume from tomorrow to August 26.
If his conviction is upheld, the previous prime minister will probably be despatched straight to jail for 12 years and required to pay a wonderful of RM210 million.
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