Mustaffa Kamil Ayub’s shattered dreams of becoming the MB of Perak

Mustaffa does not want to, again, contest this seat. He wanted a state seat this time around because he felt that DAP would most likely win the most number of seats in the Perak State Assembly with PKR getting the second largest number. And since DAP is not fielding a Malay candidate this would mean he would then become the new Menteri Besar of Perak -- something he has been dreaming of since four elections ago back in 1999.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Mustaffa Kamil Ayub is one of the infamous old guards from Anwar Ibrahim’s ABIM who is contesting the Pasir Salak parliamentary seat in Perak against Umno’s also infamous old guard, Tajuddin Abdul Rahman.

That’s nice. Two very colourful and infamous old guards face-to-face on a one-on-one in the equally infamous place called Pasir Salak.

A match made in heaven for sure.

Tajuddin is famous or infamous as ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’. And if you don’t know this story, well, too bad. That means you just ‘woke up’ very recently in 2007 or 2008.

Amongst Tajuddin’s other ‘landmarks’ is: he called the DAP Member of Parliament, M. Kulasegaran, a bastard in Parliament plus he was cited for making sexual innuendos.

Not a bad track record, don’t you think so?

Actually, this is not the first time that Mustaffa Kamil and Tajuddin Rahman are meeting on the battlefield called Pasir Salak. They first did battle in the last general election in 2008 and Tajuddin beat Mustaffa with a 2,700-vote majority.

Mustaffa does not want to, again, contest this seat. He wanted a state seat this time around because he felt that DAP would most likely win the most number of seats in the Perak State Assembly with PKR getting the second largest number. And since DAP is not fielding a Malay candidate this would mean he would then become the new Menteri Besar of Perak -- something he has been dreaming of since four elections ago back in 1999.

However, because of the letter below, PKR did not dare give Mustaffa a state seat or make him the Menteri Besar in the event Pakatan Rakyat, yet again, wins the state of Perak. Just too many PKR people hate Mustaffa and if there is any hint he will be made the new Perak MB then for sure they will vote Umno instead.

What a shame. If not then PKR would control two states, Selangor and Perak, with DAP controlling Penang and PAS in charge of Kelantan and Kedah (if they win both those states like they did in 2008). Now Perak would be under PAS if Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin again gets appointed the Menteri Besar.

Anyway, Pasir Salak has always been a dangerous place. This was the same place where J. W. W. Birch was stabbed in the back with a keris as he was taking a shit in the Perak River. That is what happens when you do an un-environmentally friendly thing like polluting the river.

And will Mustaffa, yet again, suffer defeat on 5th May 2013 like he did in 2008? Well, that is the game plan, to get rid of him once and for all. That is why he was sent to the place where Birch met his doom.