KUALA LUMPUR: Barisan Nasional chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi on Sunday (Jan 18) clarified that there is no Team A or Team B within DAP, stressing that his earlier remarks were not intended to suggest internal divisions within the party. Ahmad Zahid said the issues raised earlier did not reflect DAP’s official stance, but were the views of a small number of party members responding to remarks by Umno Youth chief Datuk Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh. On Saturday (Jan 17), Ahmad Zahid was reported as saying in his winding-up speech at the 2025 Umno General Assembly that conflicting statements from DAP’s leadership had come from a so-called ‘Team B’. He said his earlier remarks were meant as an explanation and not as confirmation of the existence of any factions within DAP. Earlier, Loke, in his speech officiating the Selangor DAP Annual Convention 2026, denied claims that he had mentioned the existence of a ‘Team B’ within DAP allegedly issuing statements contrary to the party’s leadership.

Source: The Star January 18, 2026 09:58 UTC