Sinking of KD Najib

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Dato Najib is gasping for political breadth. He is outflanked. He has been outmaneuvered by Muhyidin Yassin. Muhyiddin Yassin has managed to convinced Tun Mahathir to throw his lot behind Tengku Razaleigh. That is a political favour that Tengku Razaleigh will not forget. The Kelantan prince is a gentleman and his word is his honour. Sakmongkol has no doubts that Tengku Razaliegh has chosen Muhyidin as his running mate.

The biggest political capital that Muhyidin has is his resoluteness. He has said that he is willing to take the risks for having said that he thinks the power transfer plan between Pak Lah and the spineless Najib is too long. Muhyidin is already looking beyond Najib. His main agenda is to tell Abdullah in no uncertain terms, his days are numbered. Najib? He is a non entity already.

Fortitude and resoluteness are rare commodities among politicians. Najib has none of these. He is addicted to a life of pleasure and easy going ways. He prefers the easy life. TUn says that of him.

That is why he espouses and defends the notion of an UMNO ‘tradition’. A tradition he says, which equates honour and dignity to complete subservience to a predetermined hierarchical order.

Najib forgets that no such tradition exists. Except in his self interest laden mind. Secondly, his espousal of a notion of tradition is self serving because he is the beneficiary of the unquestioning loyalty of UMNO members.

Outflanked and outmaneuvered. He has lost the patronage of the most important figure in UMNO- Tun Mahathir. Despite being de-UMNOised, Tun Mahathir embodies what is UMNO.

Najib has none of the attributes of resoluteness and fortitude to show. What must he do? The only drift wood that can provide him with political buoyancy is endorsement by UMNO divisions. If he can get as many UMNO divisions as possible to send the message that they want him, he can still have a shot at the presidency.

But alas he has made a political faux pas. He has sounded out that it is best for UMNO divisions to confirm or repudiate the pact he made with Pak lah. Whereas when it was first expounded, he was among the first to support it citing it was accepted by the MKT too. Having made the bed, he must now lie on it.

Now, in an effort to counterbalance Muhyidin’s resourcefulness and vigor, he has to make some credible sounding noises to also suggest that he is also made of sterner stuff. But he is a poor carbon copy. That faux pas which is actually an effort to imitate Muhyidin serves only to further fortify Muhyidin’s standing.

So now, he has back paddled to his old position of upholding his imaginary notion of tradition. Didn’t Sakmongkol caution you, that he is a master of the political U-turn?. That’s turning over and over for you!