Zaid Ibrahim: If truth be told â€¦

ARCHIVES 2009

By admin-s On Mar 20, 2009

A day after the hard hitting speech from former Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim, Umno heavyweights are out to seek blood.

Former PM Mahathir Mohamad, who is also an ex-Umno member, lashed out at Zaid as someone who is irrational and stupid.

Umno deputy aspirant Muhyiddin Yassin condemned Zaid as being irresponsible and malicious, aimed to create implosion within Umno.

"No crisis in the appointment of the next Prime Minister", he said.

Before the rest of Umno members start to hammer him like no other business, I’d like to recap a few key points of his speech at the Royal Rotary Club on why DPM Najib Tun Razak shouldn’t and must not be appointed the next PM by His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

The first has to do with the reasoning underlying Umno’s demand for the transition itself. The second has to do with Najib personally. […]

These are difficult times and be prepared for worst times to visit us. Malaysia needs a leader who will unite the country in the face of the adversity. Divided, we are weak. I am loath to say it, but for the reasons I have set out am compelled to say that Najib will most certainly divide us and in doing so, will nudge us closer to the edge.

Some of you may say that all efforts to promote the national interest are at this stage an exercise in futility. If truth be told, I am tempted to slip into cynical hopelessness too. I am fighting the temptation to give up for one simple reason: Malaysia and all that it represents. This is a blessed country, a country too valuable for us to turn our backs on.

Having said so, one thing for sure, Zaid stands to lose more than gain.

If he is doing this out of his grudge against Umno for being kicked out out there, it must be very stupid and irrational of him, as how Mahathir described him.

Is that the case? Is he that petty-minded? Anyone who is aware of Zaid’s track record wouldn’t go wrong with this and yes, your guess is as good as mine.

For many years, he has been quite consistent on his stance of how a colourful Malaysia should be like and he decided to quit from the Cabinet when the Cabinet invoked ISA ruling against the three – Raja Petra Kamarudin, Teresa Kok and Tan Hoong Cheng, which he sees as a form of injustice and repression of human rights.

On top of that, I just can’t see any personal agenda out of the hard-hitting speech, and if there is any, it’d be one and the only agenda – for the sake of this blessed country for the anak-anak bangsa Malaysia who has no say to determine who is to be the next PM.