Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has no reason to fear Umno members because they are not his "wife", said former Langkawi Wanita Umno member Anina Saadudin.
"Instead they are regular Umno members who you are leading," she added in a Facebook posting tonight
She said this while admonishing Najib for allegedly using the back door to enter the Umno headquarters for the party supreme council meeting this afternoon.
"It is as though he is in fear. [...] It is just like when he ran away from the Nothing2Hide forum.
"How can an Umno president be afraid of facing Umno members waiting for their leader at the front door?" she asked.
In comparison, she said former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad dared to face an angry mob who threw bottles at him after he sacked Anwar Ibrahim in 1998.
"I believe this to be a dignified act by Mahathir who was brave because he was right [...] People are only afraid when they are scared," she added.
Umno today held its first supreme council meeting since a cabinet reshuffle in which Najib axed then deputy premier Muhyiddin Yassin as well as Mohd Shafie Apdal.
Muhyiddin, entered Menara Dato Onn through the front door, was greeted by more than 100 supporters who cheered and clapped when he arrived.
Today's meeting was rife with speculation that Muhyiddin and Shafie would be sacked.
However, at a press conference after the meet, Najib announced that no heads had rolled and that Muhyiddin and Shafie remain committed to strengthening the party.
Anina lost her Umno membership when she filed a lawsuit against Najib over the RM2.6 billion political donation.
Prior to that, she accused Najib of shortchanging Umno’s three million members using the crude term ‘kencing’ during her speech at the Langkawi Umno meet which went viral on social media.