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Poor Dr Wan Azizah, I thought when I read the Malay Mail Online’s In Kajang, rumblings of discontent as Dr Wan Azizah targets Permatang Pauh.
Grouses by constituents met here by Malay Mail Online suggest that there is credibility to claims that the PKR president would be stretched to cater to the interests of both the Selangor state and Penang federal constituency satisfactorily.
According to some, her performance in Kajang alone was already wanting even without the possible distraction of being MP in a state hundreds of kilometres north.
“She is a sleeping YB. Never comes here, unlike Cikgu Lee,” said Koh Hong Toong, referring to former PKR lawmaker Lee Kim Sin who won in Election 2008 but was dropped for the unknown Lee Chin Cheh in Election 2013.
But we have to acknowledge that Dr Wan Azizah is Pakatan’s super sub, the term being well-known in soccer.
It refers to (Wikipedia): “Players who are noted for scoring important goals when coming off the bench or frequently making appearances as a substitute.”
Dr Wan Azizah belongs to the later group, those frequently making appearances as a substitute rather than who are noted for scoring important goals when coming off the bench.
She substituted for her husband as (his ousted UMNO) faction leader after he was jailed following conviction for sodomy; she also took his position as MP for Permatang Pauh; and now she replaces him as candidate for the recent Kajang by-election, the central figure of the so-called ‘Kajang Move’, …
… and let’s not deny or pretend not to know that was nothing more than a political manoeuvre to mainly satisfy PKR’s internal leadership struggle. Thus she is expected to sub for Anwar as the next Selangor MB …