Kadir Jasin makes his most blatant call yet for the PM's ouster.
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PETALING JAYA: If Umno and Barisan Nasional wants to keep Putrajaya, they must get rid of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, veteran journalist Abdul Kadir Jasin says in his latest blog entry.
“I am sorry to have to say this,” he writes. “Umno and BN can keep the PM and pretend that everything is fine, but they must accept the fact that the risk of them being chucked out at the next GE is immense.
“The Pakatan Rakyat parties do not have to do much. They just need to keep their internal differences in check and stop washing dirty linen in public.”
Kadir is known to be a close associate of former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad and his blog articles are often interpreted as echoing Mahathir’s thoughts. He has often criticised Najib’s leadership, but this latest article is the most blatant call he has made for the Prime Minister’s ouster.
“For Umno and the Barisan Nasional, a change has to happen,” he writes. “If it does not happen, the situation can only get worse and the grand old coalition may finally succumb to old age.
“Like the Romans who had to choose between Caesar and Rome, the time has come for Umno and BN to choose between Mohd Najib and Putrajaya.”
He says Najib and “his merry men and women” have wasted the opportunity offered by the current floods to prove their concern and capabilities.
Quoting a Malay saying which he translates as “each time it floods, the sandbank would move”, he says it could “very well have a literal meaning” for Najib.
“If that saying holds true, I believe the wave of change will only get stronger. Umno has to do something about its President and Prime Minister if it wants to stop the situation from getting worse. Like the sandbank, it could be swept away at the next general election.
“The big floods may be the watershed that we are hoping for. They may spell the beginning of the end of a mediocre leadership.
“It is a watershed and an ominous one when the rakyat, through the blogs, the independent news portals and the social media outlets, discovered that the PM was golfing in Hawaii while a quarter million people were flooded out of their homes and asked, ‘Does the PM care?’
“No amount of explanation and attempts to gloss over the Hawaiian misstep by his propaganda machines will restore the Prime Minister’s image as a caring leader. His ‘rakyat didahulukan’ (people first) slogan is a sham.”
PETALING JAYA: If Umno and Barisan Nasional wants to keep Putrajaya, they must get rid of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, veteran journalist Abdul Kadir Jasin says in his latest blog entry.
“I am sorry to have to say this,” he writes. “Umno and BN can keep the PM and pretend that everything is fine, but they must accept the fact that the risk of them being chucked out at the next GE is immense.
“The Pakatan Rakyat parties do not have to do much. They just need to keep their internal differences in check and stop washing dirty linen in public.”
Kadir is known to be a close associate of former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad and his blog articles are often interpreted as echoing Mahathir’s thoughts. He has often criticised Najib’s leadership, but this latest article is the most blatant call he has made for the Prime Minister’s ouster.
“For Umno and the Barisan Nasional, a change has to happen,” he writes. “If it does not happen, the situation can only get worse and the grand old coalition may finally succumb to old age.
“Like the Romans who had to choose between Caesar and Rome, the time has come for Umno and BN to choose between Mohd Najib and Putrajaya.”
He says Najib and “his merry men and women” have wasted the opportunity offered by the current floods to prove their concern and capabilities.
Quoting a Malay saying which he translates as “each time it floods, the sandbank would move”, he says it could “very well have a literal meaning” for Najib.
“If that saying holds true, I believe the wave of change will only get stronger. Umno has to do something about its President and Prime Minister if it wants to stop the situation from getting worse. Like the sandbank, it could be swept away at the next general election.
“The big floods may be the watershed that we are hoping for. They may spell the beginning of the end of a mediocre leadership.
“It is a watershed and an ominous one when the rakyat, through the blogs, the independent news portals and the social media outlets, discovered that the PM was golfing in Hawaii while a quarter million people were flooded out of their homes and asked, ‘Does the PM care?’
“No amount of explanation and attempts to gloss over the Hawaiian misstep by his propaganda machines will restore the Prime Minister’s image as a caring leader. His ‘rakyat didahulukan’ (people first) slogan is a sham.”
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