Apa motif kumpulan “UMNO 11″ mengaku tidak berniat haramkan UMNO, sekarang?

Hari ini, salah seorang dari kumpulan “UMNO 11”, gerombolan 11 orang ahli UMNO yang telah mengheret UMNO ke Mahkamah sehingga mengakibatkan Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Dato’ Harun Mahmood Hashim mengharamkan UMNO pada 4 Februari 1988 membuat kenyataan bahawa bukan niat mereka UMNO diharamkan.

Sebaliknya, mereka meminta Perhimpunan Agung UMNO (PAU) April 1987 diisytiharkan tidak sah dan pemilihan yang menyaksikan Presiden UMNO Dato’ Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad mengalahkan pencabarnya Mantan Naib Presiden UMNO Tengku Tan Sri Razaleigh Hamzah dengan undi tipis 43 undi. Naib Presiden UMNO En. Abdul Ghaffar Baba mengalahkan penyandang Timbalan Presiden UMNO Dato’ Musa Hitam.

Laporan Bernama.com:

April 19, 2008 22:46 PM

“Umno 11″ Did Not Seek To Declare Party Unlawful Claim KUALA LUMPUR, April 19 (Bernama) — The so- called “Umno 11″ group Saturday claimed that it did not seek to have Umno declared unlawful in 1988 as it had been so accused by certain quarters. One of its members, Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman, who claimed to represent the group, said all 11 of them only sought to have the party conduct its elections again because several delegates to the April 1987 general assembly came from unregistered branches of the party. He spoke at a news conference to clarify a newspaper report that the group’s claim was granted by then High Court judge Datuk Harun Hashim and the outcome was the declaration of Umno as unlawful because it had unregistered branches. Abdul Rahim said the group took the matter to court because its appeal within Umno following the party elections was not entertained. He claimed that the newspaper was factually wrong when it reported that “Umno 11″ had sought to have Umno declared unlawful after the court found that the party had some unregistered branches. “That statement is wrong because the fact is that it was a request by the Umno group including myself that we, Umno members, seek a court declaration that the general assembly was null and void. There was nothing in our petition to have Umno declared unlawful or anything associated with banning Umno. “For 20 years or two decades, former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and the Umno secretary-general then Tan Sri Sanusi Junid and others had accused us Umno 11 as those responsible for having Umno declared unlawful,” he said. Abdul Rahim said that today the occasion presented itself for them to clarify the matter because in the past they did not get the chance to refute the statements made by Dr Mahathir and then Umno secretary-general who continuously accused Umno 11 of being responsible for having Umno declared unlawful. “My friends and I felt pressured when the first judgement of the judge was not in our favour, meaning we did not get what we had sought. We asked for a declaration for the general assembly to be held again. That’s all,” he said. He said the group filed the petition to have the results of the 1987 Umno elections declared null and void after learning there were several unregistered branches with illegal members and several of these illegal members represented divisions and had attended the general assembly as delegates. “These are matters presented in arguments which are called agreed facts. All quarters agreed that there were matters which need not be discussed, meaning that we accepted these in totality — the illegal branches, illegal members, illegal delegates and illegal delegates who lied about their age,” he said. Abdul Rahim said that following the declaration of Umno as unlawful, the group appealed to the then Supreme Court to revoke or change the decision because they had only wanted the general assembly to be held again. He told the news conference that the group felt that today’s explanation had to be made to rectify the assumption that they were traitors of Umno. – BERNAMA

Kumpulan “UMNO 11” ini kini tampil kehadapan setelah 20 tahun, kunun kunun mengaku bahawa niat mereka sebenarnya tidak mengheret UMNO sehingga diharamkan.

Penasihat undang undang kumpulan “UMNO 11” ini pada masa itu ialah Dato’ Radzi Sheikh Ahmad, seorang Mantan Timbalan Menteri dan penyokong kuat Mantan Timbalan Presiden UMNO dan Timbalan Perdana Menteri Dato’ Musa Hitam dan “Team B”. Seorang lagi ialah peguam Dato’ Marina Yusuf.

Mesyuarat pertama kumpulan ini telah diadakan dikediaman Mantan Menteri Pertahanan Dato’ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi di Bukit Bandaraya. Abdullah pada masa itu ialah Naib Presiden UMNO dan juga seorang penyokong kuat Musa dan “Team B”. Abdullah telah dipecat dari jawatan Kabinet setelah tamat pemilihan PAU April 1987, walaupun berjaya mempertahankan jawatan Naib Presiden.

Hari ini, Abdullah merupakan Presiden UMNO dan Perdana Menteri Malaysia manakala Radzi pula baru sahaja meletakan jawatan sebagai Setiausaha Agung UMNO dan BN, selepas BN mengalami kekalahan di 5 + 1 buah negeri dalam Pilihanraya Umum ke XII (PRU 12) pada 8 Mac 2008.

Antara isu isu yang tidak pernah ditimbulkan secara terbuka ialah salah seorang berkaitan rapat dengan ahli kumpulan “UMNO 11” ini ada memohon 10,000 ekar tanah balak di Pahang dan kerusi Pengarah dalam PKNP, yang tidak dilayan oleh Menteri Besar Pahang ketika itu, Dato’ Khalil Yaacob.

Perkara penglibatan kumpulan “UMNO 11” ini mungkin sengaja ditimbulkan pada masa ini (’kebetulan’ selepas 20 tahun?) ialah sebagai ‘gangguan’ (distraction) dan ‘alih pandang’ (diversion) kepada desakan yang dimulakan Mantan Presiden UMNO Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad agar Presiden UMNO dan Perdana Menteri Malaysia PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dan ianya semakin intensif. Begitu juga keputusan memberikan pembayaran ex-gratia kepada Ketua Hakim Negara yang dipecat pada Ogos 1988, Tun Mohamed Salleh Abas dan lima Hakim Mahkamah Agung lain dua malam lepas.

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