PETALING JAYA: Singer Datuk Jamal Abdillah says he is not going to be part of Muafakat Nasional (MN) owing to sure facets that he finds incompatible.
Jamal, dubbed Malaysia’s King of Pop, expressed a need to stay politically impartial.
“I humbly want to withdraw. Politics will not be in step with my rules as an entertainer.
“Politics will not be appropriate with my rules as an entertainer who desires to have mass enchantment. This contains followers from completely different political events,” he was quoted as saying by Berita Harian on Saturday (Dec 17).
Jamal additionally shared that his household, buddies and followers had requested that he withdraw from MN.
“I additionally suppose it is higher to be impartial. If you wish to specific your views, let or not it’s in your individual means,” he stated.
The 63-year-old singer additionally thanked MN for providing him the chance to affix the non-governmental organisation (NGO) in an effort to struggle for the nation’s prosperity.
He was not too long ago appointed as one in all MN’s 30 supreme council members.
“I wish to thank those that invited me to affix MN and believed in me.
“Indeed, as a father and head of a household, there may be nothing else I would like for my beloved nation however a peaceable, united and affluent nation,” he stated.
Aside from Jamal, different artistes within the committee included actor-director Datuk Seri Eizlan Yusof and actress Ummi Nazeera.
On Thursday (Dec 15), MN president Tan Sri Annuar Musa introduced that the physique is a non-governmental organisation and never a political celebration.
He additionally introduced the appointments of Jamal, Ummi Nazeera and others.