Negeri Aman Jika 1Malaysia Bersatu

After all the Najib this and that, it has to come finally. Some cocksure apple- polishing politician has come up with wickedly ingenuous NAJ1B- Negeri Aman Jika 1Malaysia Bersatu. Wow and double Wow! The world does not now revolve around UMNO- it’s now Najib. The world revolves around the sun son of Tun Razak.

It must be a sign of desperate times calling for desperate measures. The recent attempt by Zamry Kadir, the man who benefited from UMNO’s coup d’état of the legitimately elected Perak government, to canonize Najib is surely a naked unashamed display of sycophantism.  Let us somberly remind Dato Sri Zamry that canonization or the act of declaring a person as saint is done only on deceased persons. Perhaps Zamry already knows after GE13, UMNO is already deceased.  

Or Maybe Zamry wishes to cement his candidacy by doing just what he knows Najib likes- to inflate the latter’s ego.

So, before it’s too late, better declare Najib a saint. After all he has acted as Santa Claus for a number of years.  At every Budget, Najib has given out money to people in order to buy loyalty. UMNO and BN has been doing that for more than 20 years in Kelantan, it hasn’t succeeded. Loyalty earned from conviction and belief isn’t as fragile as one earned by way of paying for it. Najib and UMNO haven’t learnt that. Najib and UMNO haven’t got what it takes to inspire loyalty. They poured tons of money in Bandar Tun Razak, yet the stuttering Khalid Ibrahim won handsomely.

What Najib really is, is a master of subterfuge with an expiring shelf life in an organization dominated by lifetime right-wingers. And Zamry in particular knows, that his leader who shouts loudly here and there, is a man shouted at home. A little panadol-like ego booster is a much needed calming remedy. Najib has to create a Kim Il Jung persona to overwhelm the right wingers in UMNO.

This is another phase in Najib’s impression building leadership style. He builds and manages impression. He is this and that without ever realizing that what he is doing is mythifying impressions. How does 1 this and 1 that solve our economic productivity? How does 1 this and 1 that, answer the fact that 12% of the Malays lived below the poverty level? How does Najib fingering 1 this and 1 that explain that after 55 years of independence and rule by UMNO, income disparity within the Malay community is greatest? Why when we finger finger, you never cum Najib? Please explain to us, how can we promote economic growth, build our nation with a smorgasbord of acronyms that are stomach churning?

His only solution to stay in power, prompted incessantly by his menagerie of sycophantic advisers all with predatory and scavenging instincts, is to accentuate the 19^th century Great Man Theory of Thomas Carlyle. Our nation’s future, so his minders tell us, depends on Najib. He is the son of Tun Razak. He is the great Transformer.

His advisers are outdoing each other in advising the boss, all the time bearing in mind their own personal agenda. So Shafie Abdullah has his eyes standing in Wangsa Maju, Hj Sahlan Ismail wishes to stand in Kedah, Fatmi Salleh is going around in Kota Bharu- the other officers are busy being gate-keepers and making hay while the son of Tun Razak shines.

So, Najib is turned into a cultish figure, around who, the destiny of this nation revolves and depends.  His advisers pay close attention to Najib’s popular rating and will do anything to ensure the personal rating of the Great Leader stays high.

What are we to do?

We must dispel this myth quickly. The forces that produce economic growth and other advances in society do not lie within Najib. The Great Men Theory has no relevance to us. The forces lie within ourselves- in our motive and in the way we structure our relationship with our fellow men. Najib wants to structure his position in the relationship with his fellow Malaysians,  as that where he alone plays the role of the Hero or the Prime Mover.

If Najib isn’t PM come next March, our world is not going to collapse. It will,  only for those hangers-on around him and the missus.

The mainstream media will be picking up on that. NAJ1B- becomes a belabored acronym for Negeri Aman Jika 1Malaysia Bersatu. We have to give up- the acronym can be intended to mean whatever the desperate UMNO want them to mean. But even they cannot stop more of the younger people who registered their dislikes to likes when Najib hosted his Google Hangout. He isn’t hip to hang out with.

Those opposed to Najib can manipulate his name to mean whatever they want it to mean. But I have to caution them- despoiling Najib’s name, now that he is almost canonized can lead to imprisonment. Didn’t I say, his name is Kim Il Najib? You sit down on his poster, you face the consequence. Deface his poster, you will be caught for some trumped up felony.

We have not missed noticing that Najib’s minders are fitting up the impression on the boss, most of the time, neglecting that it’s UMNO that they must save. That is good news to us because the more intense Najib boosts his image; he is fermenting discontent with the UMNO ranks. UMNO hasn’t transformed itself after all; believing that those entitled to lead UMNO must be the issues of the aristocratic leaders in UMNO. That’s insulting to the 3 million members of UMNO who are reduced to nothing but digits conjured up, with the wave of Najib’s magic wand, when it is convenient to do so.

Just who is building Najib’s image? Must be some American consultants recently graduated from business schools who accept The Great Man Theory.  The theory states that leaders are born. That’s taken to mean, you must be born in the right family to earn the natural right to lead UMNO. I am calling the UMNO proletariats, the common men to unite and overthrow those who claim leadership as of birthright. You all have the same legitimacy to stake a claim on the leadership of UMNO. Save UMNO from the parasitic political aristocrats before it’s too late. Stay in UMNO, but when GE13 comes, vote for Pakatan Rakyat.

What Najib’s media men and spin doctors are doing is tell Malaysians and Malays, we need Najib as our savior. Because Najib is a leader that is born and has certain traits which were inherited. It’s the revival of the great man theory about history being defined and directed by the great man or hero. Najib is Optimus Prime, leader and hero of the autobots. So to the aspiring UMNO chappie who think he can cultivate himself to one day lead the nation, we have to remind him of the story when a group of Pemuda UMNO met up with Dr Mahathir; Mahathir asked them, do you guys graduate from Oxford? If no, then you have no chance to become UMNO Youth Leader.

The question now will be- were you born in the right family? If no, sorry then you can’t be a leader.  The history of the world, Mahathir will tell us just as the historian Thomas Carlyle told us before, “the history of the world is but the biography of great men”. Or in the case of Najib, the history of our world is but the hagiography of Saint Najib.

Najib fancies himself the transformational leader.  But we know the pitfalls of such image building:-

1.     Transformational leadership makes use of impression management and therefore lends itself to amoral self-promotion by leaders

2.     Followers might be manipulated by leaders and there are chances that they lose more than they gain.

Have we not been bombarded with incessant self-promotion campaigns by Najib and have we not lost our focus in all that glitziness? Let’s not be diverted by these public relations antics.