Is apple-polishing Zambry psychic?

How does Najib Tun Razak fingering '1' this and '1' that answer the fact that 12% of the Malays live below the poverty level?

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Some cocksure apple-polishing politician has come up with wickedly ingenuous NAJ1B – Negeri Aman Jika 1Malaysia Bersatu. Wow! Now we know the world does not revolve around Umno. It’s revolves around Najib, the son of Tun Razak.

It must be a sign of desperate times calling for desperate measures. The recent attempt by Perak Menteri Besar  Zamry Kadir – the man who benefited from Umno’s coup d’état of the legitimately elected Perak government – to canonise Najib is surely a naked unashamed display of sycophant-ism.

Let us somberly remind Zamry that canonisation or the act of declaring a person as saint is done only on deceased persons. Perhaps Zamry already knows that after the 13th general election, Umno will be dead.

Or maybe Zamry wishes to cement his candidacy by doing just what he knows Najib likes – to inflate the latter’s ego.

So, better declare Najib a saint before its too late. After all Najib has acted as Santa Claus for a number of years.

At every budget, Najib has given out money to people in order to buy loyalty. Umno and Barisan Nasional has been doing that for more than 20 years in Kelantan, it hasn’t succeeded.

Loyalty earned from conviction and belief isn’t as fragile as one earned by way of paying for it. Najib and Umno haven’t learnt that.

Najib and Umno haven’t got what it takes to inspire loyalty. They poured tonnes of money into Bandar Tun Razak, yet the stuttering Khalid Ibrahim (Selangor MB) won handsomely.

What Najib really is, is a master of subterfuge with an expiring shelf-life in an organisation dominated by life-time right-wingers. And Zamry in particular knows, that his leader who shouts loudly here and there, is a man shouted at, at home.

A little panadol-like ego booster is a much needed calming remedy. Najib has to create a Kim Il Jung persona to overwhelm the right wingers in Umno.

Najib, a cult figure?
This is another phase in Najib’s impression building leadership style. He builds and manages impression.

He is this and that without ever realising that what he is doing is mythifying impressions. How does ’1′ this and ’1′ that solve our economic productivity?

How does ’1′ this and ’1′ that, answer the fact that 12% of the Malays lived below the poverty level?

How does Najib fingering ’1′ this and ’1′ that explain that after 55 years of independence and rule by Umno, income disparity within the Malay community is greatest?

Please explain to us, how can we promote economic growth, build our nation with a smorgasbord of acronyms that are stomach churning?

His only solution to stay in power, prompted incessantly by his menagerie of sycophantic advisers all with predatory and scavenging instincts, is to accentuate the 19th century Great Man Theory of Thomas Carlyle.

Our nation’s future, so his minders tell us, depends on Najib. He is the son of Tun Razak. He is the great ‘transformer’.

His advisers are outdoing each other in advising the boss, all the time bearing in mind their own personal agenda.

So, Najib is turned into a cultish figure, around who, the destiny of this nation revolves and depends.

His advisers pay close attention to Najib’s popular rating and will do anything to ensure the personal rating of the Great Leader stays high.

What are we to do? We must dispel this myth quickly.

The writer is a former Umno state assemblyman but joined DAP earlier this year. He is a FMT columnist.