Kit Siang Umno Leaders Can See Right And Wrong What About Mca Mic

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While there are some Umno leaders who are beginning to see “what is right and wrong”, DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang said this has yet to happen for MCA and MIC.
This comes after Pasir Salak MP Tajuddin Abdul Rahman (above) made several bombshell allegations yesterday about Umno’s top leadership following his removal from the party’s supreme council.
“The Umno ‘implosion’ over what is right and wrong has taken more than four years to occur.
“That leaves MCA and MIC out in the cold.
“In the past four years since the 14th general election (GE14), no MCA or MIC leader had expressed regrets or concern over MCA and MIC support before May 2018 for the mega multi-billion 1MDB scandal or the shocking developments where Malaysia was equated with ‘kleptocracy at its worst’,” Lim said in a statement today.
Lim Kit SiangOn the contrary, he said, MCA and MIC were depending on the popularity of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak’s ‘Malu Apa Bossku’ persona to garner votes during the Malacca and Johor snap polls.
No swaying Umno
The Iskandar Puteri MP said he was both right and wrong in asking last month whether there was anyone in Umno who dared to say the party should not seek Najib’s return as prime minister, due to the financial scandals that occurred under his tenure.
Lim referred to Tajuddin’s revelation that a group of senior Umno leaders had brokered a deal for Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to step down amicably as early as 2020, but that plan fell through after Umno deputy president Mohamed Hasan and Najib backed out.
Lim said Najib’s involvement in this deal was a surprise, as it appears that he has kept alive his dream of becoming prime minister again after discovering the popularity of his “Bossku” persona.
“I was wrong in implying that nobody, whether at the Umno leadership or membership level, had heeded the warning of the fourth Umno president and third prime minister Hussein Onn at the 1979 Umno general assembly that Malaysia will be destroyed if its leaders were ‘dishonest, untrustworthy, and corrupt’.
“But (I was) right that such warnings would not sway the Umno leadership from supporting Zahid or even Najib’s ambition to return as the prime minister,” he added.
In his press conference yesterday, Tajuddin said Mohamad had backed out of the plan as he was “intimidated” by Zahid, and that Najib had strayed from the group’s plan.
Tajuddin alleged that the Pekan MP started eyeing the post of BN chairperson, a position held by Zahid. - Mkini

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