Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin will have more time to prioritise strengthening the party’s machinery to defeat BN in the Johor polls when he does not have to focus on being a candidate.

This was Johor Bersatu information chief Mohd Solihan Badri’s reasoning as to why his party president does not intend to defend his Gambir seat in the upcoming state election.

“Without being tied down as a candidate, the former prime minister...