Veteran politician’s credentials questioned after ‘blunders’ in handling furore surrounding Guan Eng’s bungalow purchase.
Controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) has poured cold water over DAP veteran leader Lim Kit Siang’s boast that he could do a better job as Prime Minister Najib Razak’s political strategist.
“Kit Siang thinks he is a master-politician,” RPK posted in an article on his blog. “Actually he has demonstrated how much of a novice he can be.”
Calling Kit Siang out for branding Prime Minister Najib Razak’s team of strategists “dim-witted”, “loud-mouthed”, “possessing a low IQ” and “lacking the ability to improvise on-the-run,” RPK went on to suggest that the DAP leader’s own party had blundered several times in defending Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s controversial purchase of the Jalan Pinhom bungalow from businesswoman Phang Li Khoon.
“I suppose when Kit Siang says ‘ability to improvise on-the-run’, he means the ability to come out with stories very rapidly and without delay that are fabricated, made up, cobbled together, invented, rigged, devised, concocted, imaginary, fictional, make-believe, etc,” RPK suggested, using more sinister meanings usually attributed to the word ‘improvise’.
Alleging that the ‘bad feng shui’ explanation first mooted by DAP’s Teresa Kok to explain away the furore originated from Kit Siang himself, RPK went on to suggest that all other explanations given by the DAP clearly evidenced their lack of depth in strategic thought.
These include that :
- The house has no swimming pool, it is not as luxurious as Khir Toyo’s house and is only an upper-middle class house
- The purchase was on a willing-buyer-willing-seller basis and the price was agreed upon seven years ago
- Guan Eng is not a real estate agent and did not know the seller was doing business with the Penang government; and
- Guan Eng’s wife loves living in that house.
“Now that is what I would call improvising-on-the-run,” RPK writes.
“Is this how Kit Siang is going to run Najib’s ‘propaganda’ campaign to counter the lies that the RM2.6 billion was stolen from 1MDB,” the blogger asks.
“Kit Siang cannot even manage his own son’s propaganda campaign,” RPK adds. “What makes him think he has the ability to counter all the lies against Najib?
The blogger also claimed that Kit Siang’s alliance with the MACC has now backfired and that the ‘Save Malaysia’ campaign as well as the Citizens’ Declaration has done much harm to the image of the opposition.
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