PM wants a perfect Umno machinery for GE14
PEKAN: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) still had time to finetune and perfect their machinery before the 14th general election.
The Prime Minister who is also Umno president said from the feedback he gathered through the Umno delegates conferences nationwide, the party machinery’s level of preparedness was good but added that there was still room to improve and ensure that BN would win big and maintain the mandate.
“Our situation from the aspect of preparedness is at a good level in the sense that if I as prime minister want to blow the whistle and play the drum roll, we are ready.
“But we are perfectionists. We will not be fully satisfied until everything is perfect,” he said.
Najib who is also Pekan member of parliament said this when opening the Pekan Umno Delegates Conference at Dewan Konvensyen Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah here yesterday.
It is the party’s final conference after 191 others nationwide, for this year.
Also present were Pahang Umno Liaison chief and Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob, and Pekan Umno divisional chief Datuk Seri Abu Bakar Harun.
Najib also noted that the conferences had been smooth without any unfavourable incident.
“I can confirm from Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi who had attended the conferences that Umno members from Perlis to Sabah are in high spirits and reflected the party as being more well organised and disciplined compared to the opposition.
“I also have not received any reports of flying chairs or lighting flares and so on. In short, we did not have any bad discipline throughout the conferences,” he said.
Meanwhile, he urged the more than 13 million Umno members throughout the country to internalise the party’s struggle and remain united and loyal to their leaders for the party to retain its strength as the ruling government. — Bernama