Najib can leave the Ku Li way or the Mahathir way
Raub MP, Ariff Sabri says Ku Li’s speech was an offer for the PM to leave without being hurt by Mahathir
(Free Malaysia Today) – Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is finished, but he has the choice of leaving on his own terms or in disgrace, according to Raub MP Ariff Sabri.
“Najib can leave the Ku Li way or the Mahathir way,” Ariff says in a blog posting that interprets Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah’s recent speech in Parliament as being aimed at “enticing the tiger to leave its mountain lair”.
“Understand the purpose of the speech,” he says. “It’s the same as Mahathir asking Najib to leave, but done in a more subtle way.”
He says if Najib leaves office the “Ku Li way”, he does so on his terms, whereas if leaves on Mahathir’s terms, he will be “utterly disgraced”.
He claims that the Mahathir faction is ready to deliver the final blow.
“Mahathir doesn’t need 154 division heads; he only needs about 30 powerful Umno leaders to deliver the final blow.
“Mahathir accepts that Najib has the power to patronize and buy out some Umno leaders and keep them on his side. But Najib can’t buy out everyone. Those not buyable, who simply hate Najib knowing the mess he and his wife have created, are sufficient for Mahathir to carry out the political assassination. They will simply present Najib with some irrefutable proof of Najib’s darkest secrets.”
Ariff discloses, without giving much detail, that “Najib sent some people to ask Ku Li not to savage him” before the Gua Musang MP delivered his speech. “Ku Li responded by telling the messenger to listen to the speech first,” he says.
He also discloses that Tengku Razaleigh chose not to read the final paragraph of the original speech, which would effectively have been a declaration that he was leaving Umno.
“Indeed, if one reads the speech as a whole,” he says, “it’s a challenge for Umno to sack Ku Li. Here is someone from Umno disagreeing on all Umno’s agenda, including objecting to the PM serving as Finance Minister. The speech challenges the Umno MPs in particular to give qualified loyalty to the party and leader. It’s a call for mutiny.”
