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BY AHRILY90
IN a recent blog post, Dr Mahathir said he was
withdrawing his support for Najib as his criticism had fallen on deaf ears.
This is a calculated move to in preparation for the
UMNO assembly. According to sources who have knowledge of the matter, Mahathir
and Daim formed a think tank headed by Kadir Jasin the former NSTP Editor in Chief
to plan, coordinate and consistently attack the Najib administration by
whatever means necessary. This team was formed consisting of seven senior
members working out of a bungalow in the brickfields area since January 2014.
As many of you may know Kadir Jasin is a well known
Mahathir era crony who was put into the New Straits Times to protect the
Mahathir administration as well as to spin opposition issues.
According to the source who spoke under the
condition of anonymity, Kadir Jasin is paid an estimated RM600,000 per quarter
by Tun Daim to coordinate the attack.
The think tank is also used to attack politicians
and business leaders to ‘pursuade’ them to side with his companies in
Government contracts. Why?
The former PM is sulking because his requests to
Najib had been shot down such as his failure to get funds to revive Proton and
requests to loosen red tape for Mahathir aligned foreign businessmen.
Mahathir’s removal of support carried out in
coordination with several online news portals both locally and internationally
indicate that money changed hands fairly quickly. This marks Mahathir’s attempt
to begin a movement for other UMNO members to mount attacks against the Prime
Minister during the UMNO upcoming UMNO assembly. This is the trademark media
blitzkrieg butchery that Mahathir was known and feared for during his tenure as
Prime Minister. This is best seen in the former Prime Ministers coordinated
attacks during Abdullah Badawi’s tenure.
Dr Mahathir’s relentless attacks on Abdullah, which
started in early 2006, had led the latter to relinquish his Umno presidency and
later as Prime Minister; both positions were later assumed by Najib.
The Pak Lah leadership was accused of widespread
corruption, favouritism and mismanagement, among others. Only last year,
Abdullah, in his book The Awakening: The Abdullah Years in Malaysia, hit out at
his chief critic, saying he disliked the unwarranted attacks against him by his
predecessor.
‘The
Awakening’ books are display prior to its laun
In the book, Abdullah also said Malaysia would have
been bankrupt had he taken Dr Mahathir’s advice on spending.
Najib had inherited a weakened Barisan Nasional
coalition, which won Election 2008 by the narrowest margin since independence.
He introduced political and economic reforms since
becoming Prime Minister and many analysts and senior politicians would agree
that Najib Razak is now stronger then ever.
Najib is a much stronger Umno president than
Abdullah and he is unlikely to bow to any form of pressure for him to step
down. He has many loyal supporters around him and they are willing
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