Kamilia Will Go For Wanita Umno Number Two Post

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11(Bernama) -- Wanita Umno executive committee (exco) member Datuk Kamilia Ibrahim said on Tuesday that she intended to contest the wing's Number Two post at Umno's polls in March next year.
Expressing her stand to Bernama, Kamilia said she offered to contest the post because she did not recognise Wanita Umno's leadership transition plan set for June next year.
She said there were no provisions in Umno's constitution for leadership transitions and neither was it a party practice.
Kamilia, who has not attended the wing's last two exco meetings, including the one held on Monday, said her action in not attending the meetings was a clear message that she did not agree to the leadership transition plan for the wing.
The Kuala Kangsar Wanita Umno head said it was not up to Wanita Umno's exco to decide who should lead Wanita Umno.
The exco yesterday decided that the leadership transition between Wanita Umno head Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz and her deputy Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil in June not be changed.
The meeting also called for both the Number One and Number Two posts not be contested in the interest of unity and to strengthen the wing.
The meeting also rejected Shahrizat's proposal to speed up the transition to March as Umno polls will be held that month.
Kamilia qualified to contest the Number Two post after garnering 55 nominations from the 191 divisions in the wing. The minimum needed to do so is 39 nominations.
Asked if Rafidah and Shahrizat knew about her stand, Kamilia said :"I feel both of them know".
She added that she would not withdraw even if she had go against Shahrizat for the post and that neither Rafidah or Shahrizat had contacted her to negotiate on the matter.
"I do not see the need for any negotiations as I have made up my mind," she said, adding that her reason for wanting to contest was to champion Islam more effectively as religious issues were often being questioned now.
Meanwhile, Shahrizat, in a statement Tuesday, reiterated her stand that the leadership transition plan should be streamlined in line with Umno's general assembly and polls (in March).
"To continue with the plan will cause the Wanita Umno chief post to last for only three months after which it will only be in an acting capacity for three years while the Number Two post has to be vacated. This will be a loss for Wanita Umno in the current political scenario," she said.

tunku : there is just no sense to the transition plan in wanita.just after 3 months rafidah will resign and the deputy take over as acting chief and the movement will be without deputy for 3 years.why is rafidah so stubborn. she should know that more than 70 divisions wants a new leader.she should just let it go.there is still time for her to think it over.go gracefully, don't make people hates and curse you rafidah.