After being booted from power in the 2018 general election, Umno experienced its worst-ever performance in the national polls four years later but still managed to return to the administrative capital after forging an alliance with Pakatan Harapan.

Buoyed by two consecutive by-election victories, Umno supreme council member Nur Jazlan Mohamed is now asking Harapan to apologise for casting his party in a negative light for decades.