The sickness in UMNO.

15.10.2015.

Basically many Malays are sick of UMNO. That's its main ill. And it could be fatal for the party.

Maulud, at 75 a long-time member, this morning during golf said it. I'm sick of UMNO. "I dah meluat."

There are two main scenes.

Officially, party leaders high and low, new and old, say they support the President. So they attack everyone who sounds anything like critical of Najib. There seems to be no limits to their public condemnation and the offensiveness of their language. Even the statement made by the Malay Rulers has been painted over to show lack of substance.

However, on the streets to almost a man everyone says Najib should go.

Najib supporters say this mamak Mahathir is senile and made worse mistakes in his time.

So is that admitting Najib's mistakes now ?

We are talking about the current problems. Mahathir has left office. The questions waiting for answers are right in front of us. No clear answers are given. The committees set up by Najib to purportedly find answers have been saboteged by Najib himself. The whole world has taken notice, based on newspapers in the US, Singapore, Switzerland and others countries.

The Bank Negara Governor and the AG are publicly locking horns now. Those supporting Najib are calling Zeti careless and lazy. A State leader two days ago in a speech in a closed meeting said how can Bank Negara revoke something it has given 5 years ago ?  This is a world-recognized Central Bank Governor we're talking about, while everybody knows the questionable appointment of the new AG. It's not merely filling of form, as sneered by the AG. In which case all court cases are filling of forms, anyway. Any  permission can be revoked. Surely the AG himself accepts that. More so if some conditions have been broken, not known before the committment.

There was an analogy given about working together in a boat, and throwing the captain overboard would be disasterous.

That was not an accurate description of the current political mess. We are not in a boat out at sea. UMNO's President is not the captain sailing any boat. He has very serious questions he's unable or unwilling to answer.  That means big trouble for GE 14, the disaster waiting to happen to the party. If he cannot explain these issues, or if he's guilty of any crime committed, his downfall would bring UMNO down with him. UMNO has to be led by someone else before that happens. UMNO had rejected Onn Jaafar, its first President, when he tried to bring non-Malays into the party. The party had governed the country since then. Up to now, that is.

Party members, all of them, and not just the 25 Supreme Council members, and not just the 192 divisional heads, claimed to be  3.5 million strong, must decide between an erring President or the Party. This is "pening kepala" lah !

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