History does not support Mahathir’s denial about Mukhriz
LSS
Today, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad denied again he wants to make his son Mukhriz the Prime Minister and said that he is “doing all this for Malaysia and not Mukhriz”.
Never mind that he wanted foreign intervention, collaborates with foreign media which he once called as “evil and has hidden agenda”, supports streets demonstration to overthrow the govt, constantly goes around the world bad-mouthing Malaysia including saying we are Taliban country, claiming that Malaysia is a negara pengemis failed state and also making irresponsible claims that our Agong is “under house arrest”.
Mahathir also admitted that just before he retired as UMNO president, the UMNO HQ had directed the Kubang Pasu division to admit his son as an UMNO member because the Kubang Pasu division initially did not want to admit Mukhriz.
At that time in 2003, Mukhriz who was 39 then was probably busy doing business with his listed companies Reliance Pacific Bhd and Opcom Bhd.
Mahathir also claims that he stopped supporting Najib when the “1MDB scandal” exploded.
But history and the chronology of events does not support Mahathir’s claims.
For one, in Nov 2013 when Mukhriz lost in the UMNO elections for Vice-President, Mahathir had accused UMNO warlords and Najib of not supporting Mukhriz and using money politics of making his son lose.
But I wonder why Mukhriz would be in such a rush to skip contesting for UMNO youth or even for supreme council to straight away contest for VP spot if the president spot is not his ambition?
Even at this time, Rafizi even said that the main justification for the Kajang Move was that Mahathir is already trying to overthrow Najib and if Mahathir wins, UMNO will use race and religious conflicts to cause a darurat in Selangor. Rafizi said Anwar being appointed Selangor MB would be able to prevent this darurat.
Then within a month later, Mahathir surprisingly quit as Petronas adviser citing ill-health only to become Proton Chairman a month later.
And when Mahathir announced in his blog post that he no longer supports Najib and the govt in Aug 2014, there was absolutely zero mention of 1MDB and RM2.6b.
In fact, the delay in 1MDB paying their bridging loan only happened in Dec 2015 and the RM2.6b donation was only exposed in July 2015.
And for more than a year, Mukhriz and Mahathir said he will not pakat with the opposition to bring down Najib.
But immediately after Mukhriz was forced to quit as Kedah MB,, Mahathir quit UMNO (again) and within two weeks had lined up with all his once-hated Pakatan leaders in his Deklarasi PakaTun.
Sorry Mahathir, history and your actions does not support your claims.
Here is the Chronology of events:
—
October 21, 2013- Mahathir’s Son Mukhriz Loses UMNO Bid to Najib’s Cousin
October 29, 2013 Mahahir accuses Najib’s allies of buying votes in October UMNO polls
and here: Money politics, going into the millions, still afflicts Umno, says Dr Mahathir
October 30, 2013- Dr M wrong about money politics in Umno, say supreme council members
December 2, 2013 – Dr Mahathir steps down from Petronas post on the excuse of ill-health (even though a few months later you went on to become Proton Chairman
December 4, 2013 – Mokzaini Mahathir quits as Execuive Director of SapuraKencana becomes non-Executive Director.
January 9, 2014 – MTEM calls Petronas CEO names for purported mistreatment of Dr M
January 24, 2015 – Rafizi Ramli reveals that Mahathir wants to replace Najib and cite this as the reason why the Langkah Kajang for Anwar to take over as MB is necessary in order to prevent Selangor falling into emergency if the racist Mahathir factions take over should Najib fall – Rafizi: Anwar ke Kajang pertahankan Selangor daripada UMNO jika Najib jatuh
February 19, 2014 – Mokzaini sells 190.3 million shares in SapuraKencana amounting to RM818.3 million – substantially reducing stake
May 21, 2014- Dr M confirms appointment as Proton chairman
July 21 2014 – Proton requesting RM1.7 billion in funding (not approved)
Aug 18 2014 – Dr Mahathir withdraws support for Najib government
Jan 6, 2015 – Public concern on 1MDB begins. Malaysian state fund 1MDB fails to repay RM 2 billion loan, chief executive replaced: reports
March 4th 2015- Mokhzani fully resigns from SapuraKencana Petroleum
March 13 2015 – Mahathir launches full-scale attack on 1MDB, Najib and family.
April 4, 2015 – Mahathir Calls on Prime Minister Najib Razak to Resign
June 26, 2015 – Najib delays Umno election by 18 months
July 2, 2015 – WSJ exposes RM2.6b in Najib’s accounts
July 3, 2015- Joint task-force formed to investigate Najib formed.
July 29, 2015- Charge sheets on Najib leaks out despite Najib not even interviewed by MACC yet and despite MACC not having submitted the investigation papers to AG office.
February 06, 2016 – Mukhriz Mahathir forced to step down as Kedah Menteri Besar
February 29, 2016 – Mahathir quits UMNO, Again
March 4, 2016 – Mahathir and opposition sign declaration to oust Najib and “Save Malaysia”.
