NO LONGER ABOUT DR M OR 'MILAN COUP': Najib must resign for his own incompetence, dishonesty

Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak has responded in the most adamant manner that he is not turning back, stepping down or ever going to pay heed to the many criticisms that have been leveraged against him about his personal, professional and leadership capacity.

It looks all set that Umno is in all probability going to be ripped apart and along with the BN component parties as Najib now seems more determined to wash more dirty linen of his one-time mentor and guru Tun Dr. Mahathir.

Here is a piece of advice for the prime minister of Malaysia.

To begin with you should have known better that whether you maintain trademark silence, retaliate or go for broke, there is no solution at the end of the tunnel.

Instead, all that you have to do is to re-appraise your past many responses, attitudinal silence and present volley of rains on the Tun. Therein lies the clue why your are put on the defence today.

Firstly, at the heights of the concerns raised about the Altantuya case, you should not have maintained that you are clean of any fault. That was a big mistake.

Instead, you should have maintained your desire to ensure that no stone is left unturned.

You lost that prime opportunity then when the Tun maintained a sealed silence on the case.

And you went down the dangerous path of even stating “utter rubbish” lately when wisdom should have told you to state instead, “the government will do everything within its legitimate jurisdiction to establish what Sirul is saying or meaning”. You could have added, “I am with the people, equally concerned”.

PM Najib

Secondly is the 1MDB quagmire that has trapped you into a tight corner. Even trying to hold all those public-support road shows or what many now term it as ‘Broadway stunts’, is not the right approach to the problem.

Just because somethings work in the United States of America, it does not meant it will work here in the asian context Datuk Seri.

Do you know why you are caught in this web of difficulties? It is because you are not answering the true questions that people are puzzled about.

You seem to give the impression that you do not have to answer now.

You keep preaching that over time the people will know the truth.

That is the real problem. Whoever your advisers are they should be shot on the foot and mouth and maybe the fault also is with your ears for not listening to the netizens.

Have you ever stopped inyour tracks to get the entire cabinet to know, understand and support by revealing the whole story about 1MDB?

No. Instead you keep spinning the Cinderella dream to the rakyat. Why?

When opposition politicians say there is a rat inside 1MDB, the people would only pay attention to the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So why are you so hesitant to expose the whole truth but instead preach “endless possibilities” and a million “promises”?

Fourthly, prudence would have told you that if this (the 1MDB) is the route you want to take the nation through, then transparency and accountability should have been your top most priority. And that demands that you should have relinquished the Finance Minister’s post early or at the least, not put yourself at the helm of the 1MDB entity.

So if you keep repeating yourself and this time saying, “I owe it to the people”, sooner than you expect the same people are going to ask you, “what is it for the nation in real, tangible terms?”

Anwar Ibrahim

And then, most difficult question that fall on your reputation and credibility is when the wise men and women say enough is enough by asking, “Do we have to chase after money in the billions at the expense of the solid values that our Islamic religion offers”?

Of course there were other mudflows under the bridge like the Sodomy II revival and re-jailing of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim; the ‘Allah’ issue; the ‘Cowgate’ episode and others. But let s discount all these for the moment in view of the current tide sweeping all over you and the Cabinet of Umno.

So you see, can you now blame the people for believing in the RAHMAN theory or for suspecting that Umno is rattled beyond salvation?

Last but not least, the Bugis story line is not going to earn any brownies Datuk Seri Najib. This is contemporary Malaysia not one of the bygone era of lanuns and warriors. - MAILBAG