Former premier Najib Abdul Razak urged voters to punish both Perikatan Nasional and Pakatan Harapan in the next general election.
The former for its alleged lies when in power and the latter for appointing ministers he claimed were incompetent.
“Harapan ministers were mostly cap ayam ministers,” remarked the BN adviser in his speech at the coalition’s 48th convention in Kuala Lumpur this afternoon.
Naming Teresa Kok, Maszlee Malik and Mohd Redzuan Yusof, he added: “They are incompetent and made idiotic statements.”
Teresa, who served as minister of primary industries during Harapan’s 22 months in power, was ridiculed for asking Malaysians to consume a spoonful of red palm oil daily for health.
Maszlee, the former education minister, drew flak over his black school shoe rule and Redzuan, who oversaw the Entrepreneur Development Ministry, became a household name for his “flying car” plan.
Najib also criticised certain appointments under Harapan, which included Tommy Thomas as attorney-general and PKR central leadership council member Latheefa Koya as MACC chairperson.
The former premier, who was hauled to court over a slew of corruption charges during Thomas’ tenure, described the latter as former Communist Party of Malaya leader “Chin Peng’s lawyer”.
Najib has since been convicted and slapped with a 12-year jail sentence and RM210 million fine for all seven charges related to the misappropriation of RM42 million of SRC International funds.
The BN leader, who is on bail pending the disposal of his appeal at the Federal Court, is also embroiled in another case related to the 1MDB scandal.
‘Lied to the people’
As for PN, which landed in power after a coup under Muhyiddin Yassin, Najib argued that it should be punished for “the longest MCO (movement control order) in the world” and allegedly lied that Parliament must be suspended as part of its Covid-19 prevention efforts.
“When in actual fact, they had no guts to face Parliament with no majority. That is the reality. I am not just saying this. I asked a minister from there, who admitted,” he said.
“I don’t want to mention names, but they admitted the reason was to save the government from facing a vote in Parliament, not to fight Covid-19.
“That means they have lied to the people, lied to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong,” he charged.
After a counter-coup forced Muhyiddin to step down as prime minister, he defended his unpopular move to invoke emergency laws and suspend Parliament at a time when Malaysia registered a record number of daily Covid-19 cases and deaths. - Mkini
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