By X'roy Bogel
A FOUR RING CIRCUS HAS BEGUN - NAJIB STARS IN THREE, ZAHID IN TWO, ANWAR AND MUHYIDDIN PLAY IT ALONE, WHILST NAJIB'S PROXY HISHAMUDDIN IS PLAYING THE THIRD RING, THE MAHATHIR RING WILL END EVEN BEFORE IT BEGINS
CO STARRING ; KHAIRY JAMALUDDIN, AZMIN ALI
SUPPORTING ACTORS : MAHATHIR, SAMY VELU.
I
think the most cruel thing happening to this old man called Mahathir
Mohammed is that his children are not telling him it's all over.
The more he comes out like this, after bringing this country to ruin which 32 million Malaysians already know of except perhaps for the 5 who are his party members the more he is brought into ridicule and have more people even the old say he has gone "tiga suku."
I am sure Marina and Mokhzani can see through it although I have my doubts about Mukhriz, he lacks that level of maturity in my opinion, but the other two being his children have to confront their father and tell him, "Papa lay off, it's all over."
Perhaps they can take a lesson from Vel Paari, in fact I believe Mahathir is there, at the same stage with his good old friend Samy Velu, it will be good to open a club for them and have them enroll Tengku Razaleigh too among their ranks.
It will be appropriate to have them Mahathir, Samy Velu and Razaleigh Hamzah have coffee together that would be ideal.
Tun Abdullah Badawi and Musa Hitam can't join them yet, they have not attained that unique mental status yet, but they will make good managers of the club, they know these three well enough. to manage their needs.
Mahathir's children should take a leaf from Vel Paari about what to do with their papa.
See although their recent memories may fail them the past remains intact, so they will have a lot to talk about, especially their "roles" in the building of the Sepang Airport, Privatisation of Telecoms, the North South Highway, the Penang Bridge and also the BBMB scandal among others.
They could compare notes and find out who did better, although Samy to this day believes he did best and knew how to shut up when the time came, in fact he did it so well the press can't speak to him now.
Fate works in strange ways, here we call it Karma, I remember Lim Kit Siang once telling Mahathir something to the extent, " I hope you will live to see the failure of 2020" and true enough he has..
Mahathir greatest plan was 2020 and so at least he made everyone think that by 2020 Malaysia would be there as one of the leading Asian nations.
It's 2020 we are lagging behind Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia, very soon the Philippines, Cambodia and Myanmar will go above us, it is in the drawing board and all the reasons of why we failed was because of none other than Mahathir Mohammed but the man so filled with lust to retain power will never own up to it.
Very honestly it would have been best if he were never given Malaysian citizenship with which he claimed the status of Melayu and robbed the poor Malays and taught the elite in UMNO to do the same.
He retarded the majority of Malays in the country so that he could continue with his agenda, Najib Tun Razak was his real protege not Anwar Ibrahim, everything Najib did was what Mahathir did, Mahathir wanted to repay that debt to Tun Razak by making Najib his successor, he kept him close.
Najib remained close to Mahathir, watched and learned and that is why Najib feels no shame for what he has done although he knows he was wrong and is now trying his level best to get out of that situation.
The question is not will he get out of the situation?
It is; with whose help will he Najib get off the hook and not have to serve jail time?
He Najib has three choices; give Mahathir a triumphant return to the party and Premiership with a promise to make Mukhriz the deputy and all will go well, but I do not think Najib is interested in that option, he knows that Mahathir is unforgiving, he learned that from Musa, Pairin and most of all Anwar, it is not worth the risk, so he will not take it no matter what Mahathir promises.
Will he go for Anwar?
Probably, if you remember when he lost the elections the first person he called was Anwar to form an alliance, he was reluctant to concede defeat, he did not want t go to jail, he did not want to give up the good life and .looking back could it have been Anwar who was responsible either directly or indirectly to ensure that Najib, Zahid and Rosmah did not have to come to court in Orange outfits?
Whiel Najib was refusing to concede Anwar on the other hand adviced him to concede and he did so.
Najib is comfortable with Anwar, he knows the type of person Anwar is, he was Anwar's deputy in UMNO for many years and he learned the character and disposition of this man, he knew that Anwar is not vengeful, so he turned to Anwar although it was him who fixed Anwar with Sodomy 2.
Remember his excuse that the supposed victim Saiful went to his home regarding a scholarship in the run up to the case and how certain other people key to the case were there at the same time?
Then thirdly of course is the man he sacked as his deputy Muhyiddin.
Muhyiddin was an ambitious man, he raised the question of 1MDB with UMNO chieftains privately at a meeting but he miscalculated that move, there was another very ambitious man in the room Zahid Hamidi and he took the case to Najib, he engineered Muhyiddin's downfall and cooly became Deputy. Making Zahid deputy to Njib was like Mahathir making Ghaffar Baba his deputy, Najib learned well.
Najib is comfortable with Muhyiddin, but Zahid is not, he knows he back stabbed Muhyiddin and he knows Muhyiddin will get back at him, so the compromise is Anwar as far as Zahid is concerned.
If Najib wants to stay with Muhyiddin and if Muhyiddin wants to remain as PM he has to surrender three key positions in the country to UMNO the position of the DPM and that of the all powerful Home Minister and Education Minister.
These will most certainly be on the agenda besides the Finance which is actually already Najib's, Defence which is UMNO and Trade and Industry which is now with PAS and ican be easily wrenched out considering the circumstances of the current minister.
The meeting to discuss these have suddenly been called off with a very good excuse to show that UMNO cares. The meeting would not have included more than fifty people it would have been far less so why call it off - the suspicion is there is a stalemate, some say it is more than just a stale mate there are some serious disagreements within groups in UMNO and there is a split.
The real reason is that Zahid is not in agreement with a pact with Muhyiddin which is the way PAS wants it, he prefers Anwar, he was an Anwar man and still has respect for Anwar, he has revealed this to a close confidante that he will trust Anwar, "for whatever Anwar promises he will deliver".
Zahid does not have that confidence with Muhyiddin and even his close ally Azmin the ever more ambitious Azmin.
Azmin is a baggage Zahid does not want lingering in the alliance and for Muhyiddin that is a catch 22 situation, what if he drops Azmin?
Will he drop Azmin and give him some obscure position like Minister in the PM's department, whatever that can mean or drop him off completely which is what Zahid really wants, in fact all in UMNO support the move, they see Azmin as a destructive element in the fold.
Moreover UMNO does not want Zuraida as well and that will not go well with Azmin.
Muhydiin has too heavy a baggage but he is a man Najib can finger and so is a Najib preference.
In the final analysis it is a choice between Muhyiddin and Anwar and who is it going to be?
Zahid has given Anwar his word that he is with Anwar, but it is Najib who hold's the key, so who will it be?
A RATHER INTERESTING TURN
Kuli seeing this chaos has jumped into the bandwagon and has the support of the less intelligent big shot - Hishamuddin the Oxford graduate, Khairy Jamaluddin, and Mat Hassan the current UMNO deputy President.
Khairy has a strong base in UMNO and has shown that at the last UMNO elections, had Kuli not stepped in he would have won and the whole story would have been different, Zahid would have been history and even Najib would have been silenced.
Hishamuddin is in this grouping with Razaleigh and is actually a play acting, he is Najib's insurance should Razaleigh pull it off by any chance and in UMNO politics there is no telling.
Hishamuddin as we all knwo is Najib's right hand man, he promised to deliver Jho Lo and then rode off into the sunset, so looks looks like he's riding into daylight again as Najib's Trojan horse.
Najib is playing all three, Muhyiddin, Anwar and Kuli.
Najib can manage Muhyiddin by sheer numbers but Zahid will not have Muhyiddin so will Najib give up Zahid?
Najib may not want to try that.
Najib knows Anwar is the man to turn this country around after all that bloody UMNO mess begun by Mahathir Mohammed and ended with him and his beloved wife, the only man who can pull it off is Anwar, but Anwar is strong has integrity so anything Najib wants must be agreed upon before accepting a deal with Anwar.
Razaleigh will not be able to do much, that man has passed his prime is now in the Samy Velu and Mahathir league so he'd better go there and have Cognac like he used to in those days, yes XO, and we are told if he put the glass down he'd not drink from it again, the waiter had to bring him a new one, check that out.
Now whilst he is looking at his options he is also looking to see if the Kuli faction will work. Kuli is a man he can manipulate, but Kuli is no UMNO choice, he is a constant UMNO reject and everyone knows that.
Najib is waiting to see which way the wind blows and in case you have not noticed, it's still Najib who is pulling the strings, he seems to be the defacto President of UMNO with Zahid as front man, that is why Najib engineered the move to bring him back after he went on that sabbatical from his "Presidency in UMNO", because at that time Mat Hassan the Acting President did not give Najib too much room and Najib was not allowed to call the shots.
Now Mat Hassan is with Kuli as his running mate.
It's all brewing.
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