NIBONG TEBAL: Amid the fast-paced marketing campaign actions for the Sungai Bakap state by-election, Pakatan Harapan (PH) football group led by Deputy Energy and Water Transitions Minister Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir secured a 3-2 victory in a friendly match yesterday towards Perikatan Nasional (PN) prime eleven led by Kedah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor.
The practically one-hour match on the Taman Pekatra discipline in Simpang Ampat right here gathered native and central youth leaders from each side.
Akmal Nasrullah’s group included former nationwide striker Norshahrul Idlan Talaha, or Mat Yo, winner of the 2016 Puskas FIFA Award Mohd Faiz Subri, Petaling Jaya and Kuching MPs Jaya Lee Chean Chung and Dr Kelvin Yii Lee Wuen, whereas Muhammad Sanusi’s line-up additionally included former nationwide footballer Baddrol Bakhtiar.
Also current on the match had been PKR vice chairman Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, Selangor PH chairman Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari, Negeri Sembilan PH chairman Datuk Seri Aminuddin Harun and PH candidate for the by-election Dr Joohari Ariffin.
Speaking to reporters after the match, Akmal Nasrullah stated the programme’s success is a constructive signal that the nation’s political campaigns have gotten extra mature, decreasing the weather of provocation and extremism.
“In elections, we could come from completely different groups, however in actuality, we are able to play ball collectively that concludes properly earlier than we return to the election marketing campaign,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Muhammad Sanusi described the match as a starting of larger cooperation in the longer term, apart from serving to to show down the campaigning temperature.
The Sungai Bakap state by-election on July 6 sees a straight struggle between Joohari and Perikatan Nasional candidate Abidin Ismail. It is being held following the dying of the incumbent, Nor Zamri Latiff, on May 24.
