‘Dr M going in for the kill with roadshow tomorrow’
(Berita Daily) – In a move to expedite the removal of Prime Minister Najib Razak, his fiercest critic Dr Mahathir Mohamad is set to launch a series of talks beginning tomorrow.
His first talk is to take place tomorrow morning at 9.30am at the K-Klub in Taman Melawati, Kuala Lumpur.
This is a carbon copy of Mahathir’s move to remove Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as the prime minister which started in 2006.
Then Mahathir launched his first series of anti-Abdullah talks at the very same venue, then named as Kelab Century Paradise, on June 24, 2006.
Mahathir’s roadshow against Abdullah went on throughout 2006-2007, and it weakened Abdullah’s resolve such that the March 2008 general election was a total disaster.
Abdullah resigned one year later, handing over power to Najib in April 2009.
“Tomorrow we are going to see history being repeated. Dr Mahathir will be giving his first talk in a series of talks at, yet again, the Kelab Century Paradise, now renamed the K-Klub,” said popular blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin today.
Writing in his Malaysia-Today news portal, Raja Petra said that it took Mahathir almost three years – from June 24, 2006 to April 3, 2009 – for Abdullah to finally resign.
“Mahathir cannot afford to wait another three years from tomorrow for Najib to also resign. It must be sooner than that, before the 2018 general election, assuming Najib decides to go for his full term of five years.
“If Najib decides to call for an early general election, say next year or 2017, then it is even more urgent that Najib has to go, and go soon,” he added.
Raja Petra said that Mahathir knows that it will not be easy to oust a prime minister.
He added that there was an attempt to push Mahathir out in 1987, six years after he took over as prime minister, and they (Umno) continued trying for another 15 years after that.
