TYSON WARN MEDIA

Mat Taib to media: Don't highlight resignation calls

Star - Umno information chief Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib urged the media to stop highlighting calls for party president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to resign as this could be "misinterpreted."

“If the resignation issue is blown up by the media, it must be held responsible for its impact on the country’s economic development and financial standing, as well as for eroding confidence.

“People may assume the country is in a mess," he told reporters after attending a feast to mark the victory of Bukit Gantang Umno deputy chairman Datuk Rosli Husin who won the Terong state seat in the recent general election.

“Don’t go overboard in publishing the matter as a (new) government has been established,” Muhammad said.

Muhammad, who did not contest in the March 8 polls, was appointed Rural and Regional Development Minister as a senator.