Tun Mahathir throws 3 hot potatoes at PM Najib
Najib was very supportive of Anwar Ibrahim’s rise and was – it is said – shell shocked by the events that lead to Anwar Ibrahim’s dismissal and his jailing as well as the entire court saga that tarnished the image of Malaysia.
Written by Ali Cordoba, WORLD FUTURES
The rumor mill in Malaysia is grinding fresh tales and as usual, we are putting some up here for our regular readers. It appears that Najib Tun Razak will have to decide on how to handle a ‘pushy’ Tun Mahathir who has thrown 3 hot potatoes at him.
The story of the ‘hot potatoes’ is from Singapore where the assistant Foreign Editor of the Straits Times of Singapore indeed raises the eyebrows when he argues that Tun M will live to his reputation and will not relent on his demands. Yet before we see how the three hot potatoes are going to affect PM Najib or not, let us have some backgrounder.
It is being said that before PM Najib Tun Razak took over office, there has been verbal accords between him and Tun Mahathir. Indeed, this cannot be verified with the inexistence of any records of such an agreement made ‘ad verbatim’ reports the rumor mill in Putrajaya.
Sources in Malaysia says PM Najib seems very confident that he will have a better fate than his predecessor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and the reason is that even Tun Mahathir is now in accord with Tun Abdullah’s ideas of the Iskandar corridor. PM Najib is to ensure that his policies do not curtail the three fundamental rules of being a follower of the latter:
1. Do not appoint anti-Mahathir Ministers
2. Do not let up on Anwar Ibrahim
3. Do not bring down Malay supremacy
