KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 - Outgoing Umno president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has promised to meet Datuk Seri Mohamed Ali Rustam today over the party's disciplinary board's decision to bar the vice-president from contesting the deputy presidency.
The Prime Minister told this to about 150 supporters of the Melaka Chief Minister who welcomed him home at the Royal Malaysian Air Force in Subang last night after his visit to Indonesia.
Batu Gajah Umno division head Datuk Mohd Yusoff Kassim said they had met Abdullah and had expressed their hopes that the party president would review the decision to prohibit Mohd Ali from contesting the deputy presidency in the Umbno election next week.
"We appealed to the Prime Minister to reconsider the decision to prohibit Mohd Ali from contesting and he had given a positive response," Bernama quoted him as saying
Mohd Yusoff said that at the meeting which lasted almost 20 minutes, Abdullah promised to consider the matter and meet with Mohd Ali today.
The Prime Minister told this to about 150 supporters of the Melaka Chief Minister who welcomed him home at the Royal Malaysian Air Force in Subang last night after his visit to Indonesia.
Batu Gajah Umno division head Datuk Mohd Yusoff Kassim said they had met Abdullah and had expressed their hopes that the party president would review the decision to prohibit Mohd Ali from contesting the deputy presidency in the Umbno election next week.
"We appealed to the Prime Minister to reconsider the decision to prohibit Mohd Ali from contesting and he had given a positive response," Bernama quoted him as saying
Mohd Yusoff said that at the meeting which lasted almost 20 minutes, Abdullah promised to consider the matter and meet with Mohd Ali today.
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