Dark days ahead as Umno faces more challenges


IT was one of the darkest days in his political career but Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi put on his most dazzling smile as he waved to the Umno crowd that had turned out to lend him moral support in court on Friday.

He is known in Umno as a jantan or macho politician who gives as good as he gets but 45 charges of corruption and money laundering are no small matter and his heart must have been as heavy as a rock behind the smiles.

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