‘A month of strange politicking’
PETALING JAYA: It has been a month of strange politicking by certain political forces to prop up previous leaders, DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang (pix) has said.
Certain political forces, whether of the previous incumbency or those who hoped to be “kingmaker”, were trying to reinforce the previous incumbents, he said in a statement on Saturday.
“This is best illustrated by the news that fallen prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak was setting up court as an alternative Umno power centre by establishing an office because of a deluge of visitors from supporters, friends, Umno members and Umno leaders,” Lim said.
He said they were there purportedly “to convey their good wishes, show support and ask for opinions on current affairs”.
“There was not an ounce of compunction or penitence for the wrong he had wrought to Malaysia or the destruction he had done to Umno/Barisan Nasional (BN), unlike his cousin (Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein) who announced yesterday that he was fully aware that the GE14 results signalled the need for drastic reforms in Umno,” Lim said.
“On the contrary, Najib was on the offensive and appeared in the public arena more often than when he was prime minister, complaining that the Pakatan Harapan government was trying to erase his legacy.”
Will Najib ever acknowledge that the legacy of his nine years as the sixth prime minister was the worst of all prime ministers – one of infamy, ignominy and iniquity of the 1MDB international money-laundering scandal, he said.
“Umno leaders, including the acting Umno president (Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi), seemed to have disappeared from the public arena, leaving the field to Najib and a mysterious outfit, the faceless and nameless Umno Strategic Communications Unit, which emerged after the May 9 electoral disaster of Umno/BN,” he said.
“Although Najib has accepted responsibility for Umno’s electoral disaster and resigned as Umno president, he continues to live in a bubble, blaming slander as the cause of Umno/BN’s defeat.”