The Amber lights are flashing even more furiously for PM Najib

Najib called a meeting with ex assemblymen and ex MPs. it was a selected group consisting of ex legislators some of whom might be selected to stand. It was Najib’s way of saying sorry and seeking atonement.

That was what Najib said as he admitted that some of the previously dropped legislators may have been victims of UMNO internal politics and that he understood their hurt and agony. Coming from Najib, I can say it’s an overstatement. The man has little capacity to understand others. Others are of value as long as the other person serves Najib’s interest.

UMNO is a huge house filled with palace intrigues. Each player is interested to secure the most benefits in the shortest of time. There’s no such thing as long term thinking or any of that blueprint for the future.  Those exotic things are for the top leadership to think of. To say there is a huge disconnect between the leaders and the followers is an understatement. But then, that is the price you pay for allowing the scum to rise to the top and dominate the party divisions.

Was that Najib’s way of seeking atonement? Perhaps it is but no one believed in his sincerity.

In the last elections, he dropped 17 medical doctors from the list and an even bigger number of Islamic graduates. The Islamic graduates became revolutionary time bombs. UMNO retained the riff-raffs and other unmentionables to stand as candidates. From that rogue’s gallery, Najib selects the men and women who can scale the country to new dizzying heights through his ETP, GTP, PDP, NKRA, etc etc.

Now Najib wants to offer us a hopeless team comprising of half past six and scoundrels to lead the nation?

A friend brought a prominent legislator from a state to meet Tun Daim. The legislator asked- Tun you must help out UMNO and the PM. Tun Daim answered- it’s not that I don’t want to help. But when Najib selects potential candidates he doesn’t discuss it with others whom he want assistance and help from. How can I help if I don’t know the constitution of the candidate? UMNO is taking all the wrong steps.

As the legislator and my friend left, my friend asked the legislator whether he understood what Tun Daim was saying. No, answered the legislator. What Tun Daim did, said my friend was saying it diplomatically that he doesn’t want to help out.

Now, Najib is asking help from these people who until the day they were invited to the PM’s official residence, were all but forgotten. They were ignored for 4 years and Najib is now coming to seek help from them. He is in for a nasty surprise. UMNO’s deceitful ways are already exposed. When help was needed, Najib and gang will be calling you 24 hours nonstop. When you have run out your usefulness, you are dropped like a ton of bricks.

Everyone who came that night considered themselves winnable candidates. How many can Najib accommodate without upsetting the present set up? It’s going to be war again. The present semblance of a united front will disintegrate as soon as he comes out with the candidate list.

Najib’s meeting with the ex-legislators whose outcome is indeterminate was followed with an even more ignominious result when he attended the national meet of the cooperatives movement.

After having their meal and when Najib was about to speak, people started to leave the premises. While taking leave, they blew air horns and the organizers were forced to announce over the PA system asking the people to stay back. But since Ismail Sabri was in attendance, Najib’s sly PR people can always attribute that humiliating treatment to the presence of Ismail Sabri.

It was bad for PM Najib but worse for Ismail Sabri. Since Ismail Sabri can’t even be assigned to handle attendees to that meet, he is almost certain to be dropped as a candidate in GE13.  In any case his Bera seat is not formidable.  So, one of the ex-legislators who attended the meeting at the PM’s house has a strong chance to replace Ismail Sabri.

In an earlier article, I said that Najib has brought in about 18,000 new voters in Pekan. I have been informed there’s a sudden surge of about 23,000 new voters in Pekan. What’s worrying Najib is, he doesn’t know the preference of these 23,000 voters.

If they are young voters, they will likely reject Najib. If most of them are aliens, they have caused great resentment among the locals. Najib has given them many benefits including land. Each acre of land given to an alien means an acre less for local born.

Najib is at sixes and sevens.