Umno secretary-general Tan Sri Annuar Musa confirmed with the press that party president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had gone to Istana Negara after chairing a supreme council meeting at the PWTC.

Zahid was among six political party leaders who had been granted an audience with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah on Sunday.