Malays don’t need ‘lazy uneducated’ Umno reps

If PM Najib retains his seat in his homeground Pekan in the next general election, it will 'only' be due to his 'personal' charisma and not because Pekan Umno worked hard.

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Umno people don’t want to work hard. What’s the point of working hard when you don’t know whether you are contesting or not.

Maybe the Umno leaders have forgotten the bad habits of Umno people. They only work hard if they have a chance at becoming wakil rakyat or a member of parliament.

Hello! Malays don’t need a wakil rakyat who is uneducated and lazy. Umno people only want to work hard if they are selected as candidates.

Take Pekan Umno for instance. It’s Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s homeground. But even here the situation is not good.

The situation in Pekan is like it was in the 1990s. The people, namely the Umno operatives, noisely gather to welcome the PM’s return to Pekan.

They come in droves to fiesta at the PM’s residence in Pekan. They party to welcome the PM and to send him back.

Apart from that Pekan Umno is deadpan silent.

‘Personal’ factor

Nobody wants to do more because even if you do more the boss cannot see. What is more important is to ‘show’ we are working hard and that too only if the boss is aware and knows you are working.

So if Najib wins in Pekan, it won’t be because Pekan Umno worked hard. It will be merely because of Najib’s ‘personal’ factor.

His body alone is worth half the votes in Pekan. The balance will come from donations and gifts forwarded here and there.

Maybe this is the reason why the Pekan Umno information unit is inactive. Perhaps it sees no need to be active.

By the way, it’s infromation chief wants to be a candidate.

And if there is an indication of a possible candidacy for him then he is prepared to work 26 hours a day.

Getting into Kuala Lumpur from Pekan you hear tales of disappointment at the performance of the Pekan Umno information chief.

I dare speak about Pekan Umno division because I come from there. And I follow the division’s development.

Important to note is the fact that the division’s treasurer is busy soliciting donations and funds presumably to boost the division’s coffers.

This, so that the division can pay workers and soldiers to do their job during the elections.

If this is happening in the PM’s own division, it means it is being done elsewhere too. That I can guarantee.

In which case what has happened to our Umno?

This is an excerpt from the writer’s sakmongkolak47 blog. The writer is also an FMT columnist