Tun M, you lost. Accept it!

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Tun M, you lost. Accept it!





When Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad became the 7th prime minister, the country and other world leaders went euphoric. Countries around the globe suddenly saw the awakening of a ”saviour” whose mission was to save Malaysia from kleptocrats, thieves and corruption that had gangrened the country.

He was stacked with honorary awards and was shuttling universally to denounce the former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. He boasted how he made a historic comeback from retirement as there was no one capable of leading the country and that the Pakatan Harapan he captained was the ultimate answer for Malaysians.

He ran the country for 22 years earlier and thought that after a 15-year hiatus, his political resurrection by PKR, DAP, Bersatu and Amanah was a calling that was too good to pass.

But his dicing was just not working out. First, he had appointed a bunch of ministers that were overzealous. They practically rushed and shoved policies after policies that could only work in a robust and tested corporate world. Hard hitting policies and new taxes were implemented without proper collective consultation.

his personal business, Cybervillage in Sing, suffered six straight years of continued losses from 2002 to 2007, whereafter he packed his bags, left Singapore for Selangor and joined DAP to bless the party with 'his technical expertise on financial matters'

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Mahathir’s ministers, inexperienced in public service per se, were seen and perceived as being gung-ho and autocratic; bordering arrogance and ignorance.

Second, Mahathir and team were just too obsessed in blaming everything and all on Najib for every single shortcoming that hit the country. From finance to the civil servants. They were madly and moronically fixated to the idea that as long as they keep hounding Najib and Umno, Malaysians will keep supporting them no matter what they did.

Frankly, Mahathir and his entire Pakatan team were going berserk over Najib and that actually strengthened Najib and Umno, or Barisan Nasional.

Mahathir and team slowly but surely became the outcast among Malay/Muslims and inevitably pushed the Malay/Muslim agenda further to gel. And all Najib had to do was to ride on the wave provided by Mahathir’s lead actually.

Najib was in the opposition and in as much as he is embroiled in multiple court cases, that did not mean he has been defeated, and Mahathir was unintelligently providing all the weapons on a silver platter to Najib and his followers.

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Najib is a clear leader when it comes to social media warfare. His reach was greater and wider as compared to Mahathir and his half-past six Cabinet members, who were seeking more glamour and fame by posting selfies.

I am not defending Najib or anybody for the matter but Mahathir cannot blame anybody today for his failures. He must accept that he failed to appoint good and well deserving people to manage the country when he became the prime minister in 2018.

Mahathir is trying very hard to justify his resignation, which ultimately brought Pakatan to its grave, even to the point of blaming prime minister in-waiting Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for not being patient.

He also blamed Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and others who left him to form Perikatan Nasional.

Finally, after blaming the entire world, he makes a grand revelation and crowns Najib as the master tactician behind the entire fiasco that had brought the country to a grinding halt for nearly two weeks.

So, is Mahathir insinuating that he is actually not all that smart? That he underestimated Najib and that he got is all wrong from the day he started hammering Najib all round the world?

Whether Najib is guilty or not for all the alleged crimes, that is for the court of law to decide. And the writer reiterates that this is not in defence of Najib. But one should always remember that Mahathir should not have overstretched his luck badgering Najib.

And today Mahathir once again uses the Najib factor.

Come on Mahathir! Just say it that you were incapable of running the country with a team that was assembled purely to justify them agreeing that you become the prime minister after the last general election.

It is no more about Najib or Umno. Mahathir just cannot digest that his time is over in politics.

Yes, Mahathir created history. Longest and shortest-serving prime minister Malaysia ever had to date. 22 years versus two years.

Mahathir should just take the 9% bonus for being a government servant and retire gracefully from politics.