The Umno supreme council's unanimous decision to nominate Prime Minister and party vice-president Ismail Sabri Yaakob as the party's candidate for the next prime minister showed that the party was united, said council member Jalaluddin Alias.

Jalaluddin (above) said the party's decision had put to rest claims that Umno was becoming more fragmented or that the party had not learned its lessons from the last general election.