KUALA LUMPUR: Bukit Gantang Member of Parliament (MP) Datuk Syed Abu Hussin Hafiz Syed Abdul Fasal decided to pledge support to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on his own free will, said Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil (pix).
The Unity Government spokesman said the Perikatan Nasional (PN) MP was not coerced in any way to give his support.
Fahmi also refuted claims that Syed Abu Hussin Hafiz was on board with the government as he received an additional allocation of RM30 million for his constituency which he allegedly requested.
“I don’t think so. He’s not getting his RM30 million. Even I don’t get that much … I think what he meant was to prioritise certain initiatives and projects to resolve long-standing problems in his constituency,” he told a press conference here today.
Syed Abu Hussin Hafiz today openly pledged his support to the Prime Minister and MADANI government during the Minister’s Question Time in the Dewan Rakyat, making him the fifth MP from Bersatu to have done so after Zahari Kechik (Jeli), Mohd Azizi Abu Naim (Gua Musang), Datuk Iskandar Dzulkarnain Abdul Khalid (Kuala Kangsar) and Datuk Dr Suhaili Abdul Rahman (Labuan). –Bernama