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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Najib ready to teach a lesson to ex-teacher


It will be a straight fight between BN's Najib Tun Razak and a relative unknown from PKR, Fariz Musa.
PEKAN: Barisan Nasional chairman Najib Tun Razak and PKR supreme council member Mohd Fariz Musa were today named as candidates for the Pekan parliamentary constituency, in what is set to be a colourful, if unsurprising, straight fight here.
The battle is set between the two parties here at the royal town of Pahang, but in a curious twist of events, it was PAS, and not PKR, that emerged en masse to support their heroes as they underwent the nomination process.
A sea of green and blue converged before the Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Convention Hall today by 9am, kick-starting a war of flag-waving and chanting between BN and PAS supporters.
Separated by plastic cones and a line of stern-faced troops deployed from the Federal Reserve Unit, the several hundred PAS supporters were woefully outnumbered by their blue counterparts, who had arrived here in the thousands via buses.
In a stark contrast, only a scattered handful of PKR members could be seen clutching their party’s flags, drowning amid the shallow green sea.
Reinforcement in the form of a truck bearing more PKR flags arrived a half hour later, but still they were no match to the dominant blue.
The unbalanced turnout is perhaps a reflection of the fight that will play out in the next few days. Pekan has been under BN chairman and Umno president Najib’s grip for over three decades.
Najib first became the member of parliament for Pekan in 1976, taking up the mantle from his father, the then-prime minister and Pekan MP Tun Abdul Razak, after the latter passed away.
With the exception of a brief respite between 1982 and 1986 as Pahang menteri besar, the state’s royal town has traditionally been Najib’s stronghold. In the 2008 election, he beat PKR candidate Khairul Anuar Ahmad Zainuddin by 26,464 votes.
That Najib’s contender today, former teacher Mohd Fariz, 43, will face an uphill battle in unseating the giant from his pedestal is a given.
But the PKR leader’s odds took an upswing turn yesterday when Universiti Malaya student Mohamed Bukhairy Mohamed Sofian abruptly pulled out of what would have been a three-cornered fight here at the eleventh hour.
Meanwhile, the four state seats being contested under the Pekan constituency are Pulau Manis, Peramu Jaya, Bebar and Cini.
BN’s candidates for the four state seats are incumbent assemblyman Khairuddin Mahmud, Sh Mohmed Puzi Sh Ali, Mohamad Fakhruddin Ariff, and incumbent assemblyman Abu Bakar Harun. All are Umno members.
They will be contesting against PAS’s Othman Bakar; PAS’ Abu Kassim Manaf and Independent Syed Mohammamd Faiz Syed Azemmant; PKR’s Mohd Jafri Ab Rashid, and PKR’s Sitarunisah Ab Kadir respectively.
In 2008, BN won all four state seats with a majority ranging from 3,540 to 5,153.
In a related development, Najib has expressed confidence that the BN team of candidates would transform Malaysia to greater heights.
“Today is nomination day. I am confident that the BN team contesting will transform Malaysia to greater heights,” he said in his Twitter message today.

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