RPK: Mahathir showing signs of desperation
Blogger claims former premier is turning his battle with prime minister into a battle between the rakyat and Najib.
(FMT) – Former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is beginning to show signs of desperation in his quest to remove Prime Minister Najib Razak, says blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin.
In a posting on his Malaysia Today website, Raja Petra believes Mahathir has become defensive and less confident, in contrast to the “high and mighty” stance he had previously taken to give the impression that he was speaking from a position of the moral high ground.
This, Raja Petra said, was reflected in the statesman’s latest blog posting titled “The Citizens vs Najib”.
“Mahathir knows that the tide is turning and to arrest his declining fortunes he needs to salvage the situation by turning this whole thing into a ‘Rakyat versus Najib’ affair instead of ‘Mahathir versus Najib’.
“Mahathir is now cowering and hiding behind the rakyat, the same people he showed disdain for when he was in power for 22 years,” he said.
The Manchester-based blogger claimed Mahathir knew that he had to do some “hard selling”, but the public were not as gullible as Mahathir had thought just one year ago.
Raja Petra alleged that Mahathir’s key message in the blog post was that he was speaking on behalf of Malaysians and had the interests of the country’s 30 million people at heart, but he did not have the “moral right” to do so.
