Khaled needs to appear rebellious for Johor’s sake
Umno cannot afford to have unhappy members and supporters in Johor. A large scale boycott of the poll by such unhappy people in the next general election will definitely be disastrous.
Life of Annie
A friend who is one of the rebels got a bit excited when he shared this story with me earlier today,
Umno must not keep quiet, it’s time to act, says Johor MB
excerpts:
In a Facebook posting today, Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin said Umno cannot keep quiet if “corruption becomes a culture or trust is betrayed”
“Umno cannot keep quiet when the party no longer champions the cause of Malays but is instead used to defend a few under the name of loyalty or discipline in adhering to leaders,” he wrote.
“Umno can no longer stand by as an observer. The time has come for Umno to move forward, to be more proactive and dominant,” he added.
My friend thought that the rebellion may still be alive.
I had contended earlier that DS Najib Razak and his people had crushed the rebellion by their decisive move of removing all the internal threats against his leadership last week.
Khaled, who is the Johor Menteri Besar and State Umno liasion chief does indeed sounds rebellious in that Facebook posting.
If only he had been more specific…
Still, Khaled’s son, Akmal Saufi had also apparently sounded rebellious.
Here is what the young man said as per published by Apanama,
Soalan dari pemimpin muda JOHOR – Derma untuk Najib Razak
Akmal Saufi had posed several hard questions to Najib about the alleged RM2.6 billion wired into the personal account of the prime minister.
In my opinion, those questions are actually more “dangerous” than those raised by former DPM TS Muhyiddin Yassin which caused him to be removed from his government posts last week.
So, is Khaled leading a new wave of rebellion from Johor?
My answer is – NO.
First of all, I never see Khaled as being the rebellious type.
In fact, I find him to be a bit too timid.
As most of us probably know by now, Khaled has been quite overshadowed or even overwhelmed by the Sultan of Johor.
In that sense, I quite pity him.
Honest.
Of late, that’s how I feel about him. That’s why I have not write much about him and my beloved Johor for quite a while.
I even feel that I have been a bit too hard on the guy in the past.
As to why he suddenly sounded brave – I think the guy is actually trying to be so because the sentiment on the ground among Umno members in Johor is quite bad at the moment.
Muhyiddin, who is still the Umno deputy president is a Johorean and the circumstances surrounding his removal from the DPM and Education Minister posts was rather unpleasant.
Johoreans generally don’t take it too kindly when one of them, especially someone like Muhyiddin who once served them as their MB was being treated unfairly or unkindly.
Khaled understand the sentiment well and for that he has to assure Johor Umno members and supporters to remain with the party despite their unhappiness.
To do that, he has to appear sympathetic to the wishes of the party’s grassroots in the state.
