Kit Siang discovers someone worse than Najib

 

For the longest time, Lim Kit Siang had trained all his guns on one individual - Najib Abdul Razak.

With the former premier now behind bars, the DAP veteran has set his sights on a new target, whom he claims is worse for Umno and BN than Najib.

Since hitting the campaign trail, Lim said he could feel that the “wind of change is blowing hard” and Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi senses this as well.

“Zahid is putting up a brave front publicly but he knows in his heart of hearts that he has dragged down the reputation, popularity and integrity of the Umno-BN coalition to the lowest level in history, even to a lower level when Umno was under the presidency of Najib.

“How long can the Umno leadership mislead the Malay masses to accept that corruption and kleptocracy are admirable qualities, especially when the early Umno presidents like Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Abdul Razak Hussein and Hussein Onn are famous for their condemnation of corruption and kleptocracy?

“For how long are the Umno leaders going to frighten the Malays with lies and falsehood that Malays and Islam are under threat, when there is no anti-Malay, anti-Chinese, anti-Indian, anti-Dayak, anti-Kadazan or anti-Muslim, anti-Buddhist, anti-Christianity and anti-Hindu sentiment at the grassroots?” he said in a statement this evening.

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang

For the “wind of change” to carry Pakatan Harapan leader Anwar Ibrahim into the prime minister’s chair to “save Malaysia”, Lim called on Malaysians, inside and outside the country, to ensure that the voter turnout is more than 80 percent.

From all accounts, he said, Harapan is poised to win the largest bloc of MPs but not enough to reach the simple majority of 112 seats, unless there is a high voter turnout.

He also highlighted the possibility of BN and Perikatan Nasional forming an alliance to reach the required number to form the federal government.

Bemoaning Malaysia’s fate, the 81-year-old retired politician, who made his electoral debut in the 1969 general election, claimed that nation-building has failed.

“When Malaysia was formed, we were the richest country in Asia after Japan, but in the past six decades, we have lost out to Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Vietnam.

“In 1965, one Singapore dollar was worth one Malaysian ringgit.

“Today, one Singapore dollar is worth RM3.39. Do we need more evidence to show how Malaysia has failed in the last six decades?” he asked.

Save Malaysia, vote for Harapan

However, Lim claimed that Malaysia could still be saved from falling below a “second-rate mediocre country to a third-class failed, rogue and kleptocratic state like Sri Lanka or Zimbabwe” if Anwar becomes the 10th prime minister.

“The other candidates whether Zahid, Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin or PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang do not admit that we have failed in nation-building in the last six decades.

“Under them, Malaysia will end up as a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state in three or four decades,” he cautioned. - Mkini