DPM to lose job in looming Cabinet shake-up, says analyst
(FMT) – Zahid will take over as Deputy Prime Minister, according to Shahbudin Husin.
A political analyst has speculated that a Cabinet reshuffle is imminent and that Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be kicked out.
Quoting unnamed sources, Shahbudin Husin says in his latest blog entry that the idea of the reshuffle and Muhyiddin’s sacking was presented to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak a few weeks ago by officials of “a government psywar agency”. He does not identify the agency by name.
He says the officials told Najib that the “time for defensive action was over and it was now time to attack and shoot.”
The likelihood of the reshuffle, he adds, is strengthened by the fact that Najib was accompanied, in his recent visit to the Holy Land, by Umno vice-presidents Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Hishammuddin Hussein and not Muhyiddin and Shafie Apdal, another Umno vice-president, but one who has, like the DPM, been critical of the Prime Minister’s handling of the 1MDB issue.
He suspects that the three used their opportunity to be together in Mecca to plot a course of action.
