Pahangians in Najib’s Cabinet

 

Our new PM has come out with a leadership theme. It is One Malaysia, People first and Performance Now.

He has outlined his hopes for creating an inclusive society where no group is left out from the fruits of national building. The overriding objective is to put the people's interest first. We can suppose that these objectives are achievable with competent performance.

We shouldn't mislead ourselves into believing that these objectives are achievable with so-so leadership quality. They demand competent leadership consisting of men and women with the passion, drive, determination, intelligence, commitment and fortitude to help achieve these goals.

Najib must direct himself to finding men and women of above average calibre to lead the nation. Forget about those naggers who are left out and who will be braying until they are blue in the faces disavowing such an elitist approach.

It's necessary to offer above average leadership for Malaysians. Not all are ministerial material and it's not etched in stone somewhere that all MKT members must be made a minister to be able to serve. They have been telling this line about serving even without positions to us so many times; let's see it applied on them now.

But let me dispel this idealised notion of insisting a leader with angelic virtues. Before the 3 by elections I have been hearing preachy and pontificating overtures to DS Najib that he must choose untainted individuals, uncorrupted people and so forth. After hearing that so many times, I could have sworn we are looking for committee members of a mosque or surau. They must have unblemished moral record and any perceptions imagined or perceived as moral deficiency are sufficient to disqualify a potential leader. Never mind if the fellow is a sissy in leadership, as long as he/she is externally virtuous, he/she is in.

When I heard that, and because I don't think DS Najib will disqualify himself, I see a cabinet consisting of....only Dato Najib. All the others are tainted. So shall we have the first cabinet in the world with only one person and that person is Dato Najib?

Naturally, because I come from Pahang, I will be waiting with bated breath to see whether those Pahang chaps who won in the recent MKT elections will be included in Najib's cabinet.

Will Ismail Sabri still be a cabinet minister? A previously colourless fellow with no impressive record was made a minister in the previous cabinet, he will be hoping to still be in. Will Saifudin Abdullah still be around? And will the hardest working individual who has straddled the earth and the space, Mr. Boombastik, Mr. Fantastic! a.k.a Mr. Raba Raba be included in the cabinet? Or will he be despatched to head Media Prima as rumoured? I say, I say, that will be Butt Heaven old chap!