Isham Jalil sacked as Umno supreme council member, say sources

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Isham Jalil has been sacked from the Umno supreme council effective immediately, according to sources.  A supreme council member who attended the meeting said Isham’s sacking came following his various criticisms against Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi recently.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4cb7anhw  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 According to sources, Isham Jalil has been sacked from the UMNO Supreme Council, effective

00:08 immediately.

00:09 A Supreme Council member who attended a meeting at the UMNO's headquarters on Wednesday

00:14 night said Isham's sacking came following his various criticism against UMNO President

00:20 Datuk Sri Dr Ahmad Zahid Amidi.

00:23 The UMNO Supreme Council meeting began at 8pm and ended about two hours later.

00:28 Earlier there was speculation that Isham would be sacked as an UMNO Supreme Council member.

00:34 Isham had criticised UMNO's cooperation with Pakatan and DAP, to which Ahmad Zahid said

00:39 Isham should air his views before the UMNO Supreme Council meeting on Wednesday.

00:44 However, Isham said he would not attend as a sign of protest against UMNO's decision

00:50 to work with the AP.

00:52 Among those spotted at the meeting were UMNO Vice President Datuk Sri Johari Abdul Ghani,

00:57 Supreme Council Member Datuk Sri Ahmad Maslan, Tan Sri Sharizad Abdul Jalil and Tengku Datuk

01:03 Sri Zafrul Abdul Aziz.

01:04 For more information, please visit www.umno.org/covid19.

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