[1][2][3] Abdul Latiff was a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
[4] He left UMNO in 2018, and joined the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) the following year.
Abd Latiff was dropped from Najib Razak's cabinet after the 2013 general election, and was appointed the chairman of the government-linked housing development company Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB).
[5] He left SPNB in early 2019 after BN lost as the ruling federal government to Pakatan Harapan (PH) in the 2018 election.
Earlier, a video featuring Abdul Latiff's statement in an open forum on the matter was spread on social media where he mentioned "Sabahans do not mention jumping but call migration and usually from Berjaya to PBS, PBS goes to UMNO.