In jest, Pakatan Harapan secretariat chief Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah said PAS should be supporting the Pakatan Harapan candidate Karmaine Sardini in the Tanjung Piai by-election instead of BN candidate Datuk Seri Wee Jeck Seng.

Saifuddin said this to remind the Islamist party of its previous insistence that voters should back candidates based on their religion first.