Datuk Seri Jamal Md Yunos said that tomorrow Umno division leaders will make a statement calling for the resignation of MCA president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong.
About a hundred Umno division leaders will gather at 3pm at Riverfront tomorrow, he told reporters at Menara Dato’ Onn tonight.
“So tomorrow we the division leaders of Umno will defend the position of Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi as the Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman and the president of Umno and we will ask Wee to resign, not the president of Umno,” he said.
Jamal was at the World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur for a meeting of Umno Supreme Council.
Earlier, MCA said Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi should be replaced by his deputy Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan, also known as Tok Mat, as chairman to lead Barisan Nasional (BN).
Its secretary-general Datuk Chong Sin Woon said the actions of the coalition’s president Ahmad Zahid clearly contradict what was decided in the meeting with the BN Supreme Council last night.
Meanwhile, Umno Youth chief Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki has hit out at Wee over the party’s call for Zahid to step down following the coalition’s loss in the general election.
“He (Wee) should resign first because they contested 44 seats and only won two, both of which were Malay areas,” he told reporters at Umno’s headquarters.
“That means he has failed to win the support of Chinese voters and should take responsibility for it.”
Earlier, Chong said Zahid had acted “completely out of line” by sending a letter to the King stating that all 30 BN MPs were backing Anwar Ibrahim as prime minister.
The letter, which has since gone viral, was confirmed as authentic by MIC president SA Vigneswaran.
Chong also revealed that last night’s BN meeting saw a proposal for Mohamad Hasan to replace Zahid as BN chairman.
He maintained that the BN chairman was no longer fit to continue leading the coalition, reiterating that Mohamad should replace Zahid in the top BN post.
Umno president Zahid has been urged to resign following BN’s dismal performance in the general election, in which the former ruling coalition only won 30 seats. Pakatan Harapan secured 82 seats while Perikatan Nasional won 73.