Najib Runs Out Of Panic Buttons – 92-Year-Old Mahathir Could Return As PM Again

Najib son of Razak tries to put on a brave face. Initially, he tried but couldn’t. It would take hours for the PR team at Putrajaya to “train” the Malaysian prime minister – psychologically and mentally – not to look nervous and panic. They found that the best way is for Mr. Najib to smile – a lot– so that the UMNO warlords would not see how worry their big boss really is.

So from now onwards, expect to see tons of smiles from Najib Razak, as if he was on heavy makeup like a clown would normally put. In reality, Prime Minister Najib Razak is fabulously panicked and terrified. He hadn’t seen this coming. His greatest enemies – opposition de-facto leader Anwar Ibrahim and mentor-turned-enemy Mahathir Mohamad have joined forces – for real!

True, in politics there are no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests. Still, the “bad blood” between Mr. Anwar and Mr. Mahathir was so thick that not even Taylor Swift’s song could melt it. After all, it was then Prime Minister Mahathir who accused and declared his Deputy Prime Minister Anwar guilty of sodomy and homosexual acts, essentially thrown him in jail.

For Anwar and Mahathir to kiss and become a tag-team (again) since 1998, it speaks volumes about a bigger and nastier enemy – Najib Razak. But were Anwar and Mahathir saints in the first place? Let’s call a spade a space. Both individuals practiced corruption, nepotism, cronyism and even racism when they were on the throne of powers.

However, at least when Anwar and Mahathir plunder the national coffers, they made sure for every dollar they took, the country could generate two dollars. On the contrary, Najib and Auntie Rosie will take two dollars for every dollar their regime could generate. That’s why the country’s foreign debt is approaching RM1-trillion. But that’s not the worst part.

The worst part is despite abolishing subsidies for petrol, diesel, sugar, cooking oil, electricity tariffs, water and whatnot, Najib regime somehow still couldn’t find the money to run the government efficiently. The son of Razak practically steals rice from a beggar’s bowl when he introduced 6% GST (goods and services tax) on 1 April 2015.

By jailing Anwar Ibrahim (for the second time for the same crime of sodomy), and bribed the so-called God-fearing PAS (Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party) with RM90 million, Najib thought the opposition was toast. Now with the emergence of Mahathir driving a new opposition coalition – Pakatan Harapan (Hope’s Pact) – Najib regime has plunged into panic and disarray.

How can you tell that Najib’s Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition is running out of panic buttons to push? It’s simple: look at the reaction of the prime minister’s bootlickers. When Mahathir finally revealed (over the weekend) the opposition coalition’s new logo, flag and leadership structure, Najib’s top bootlicker Salleh Said Keruak went ballistic babbling about DAP not holding any top positions.

Like it or not, the 92-year-old old fox Mahathir has demonstrated his awesome political skills once again. It was by design that DAP was deliberately not included in the top three positions in Pakatan Harapan’s new line-up. Anwar would probably put a Malay from PKR, an Islamic spiritual leader from PAS and a Chinese from DAP, just to satisfy everyone.

As a former prime minister who had ruled for 22 years, Mahathir knew the next 14th general election, which will have to happen on or before 24 August 2018, will be fought based on racial cards. Najib will run a campaign so racist that it would make Donald Trump looks like he was a long lost brother of King Salman. Therefore, rural ethnic-Malay voters cannot be spooked by Chinese in the line-up.

That explains why Mr. Salleh Said Keruak was so upset that no Chinese DAP was in the line-up. Mahathir was named as chairman while Anwar was declared de-facto leader. Anwar’s wife, Wan Azizah, was proclaimed president of the opposition coalition. All three are Malay-Muslims to convince the folks in Malay villages that the coming election is a fight among Malay-Muslims.

By putting DAP at backstage, retired Mahathir could lead an easier charge against super-corrupt Najib without having to worry about allegations that ethnic-Chinese is taking over the country. After all, how could a Chinese becomes prime minister when the top three positions in Pakatan Harapan’s new line-up are made up of Malay-Muslims?

The clearest sign pointing to Najib’s panic mode was when the prime minister himself, supposedly very confident of winning big in the 14th nationwide election, had to travel hundreds of kilometres away at night to Sembrong in the state of Johor practically begging and bribing for votes. He brought along heavyweights like Hishammuddin Hussein and Deputy PM Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

It would be just an ordinary Hari Raya open house if not for the fact that Sembrong is the parliamentary seat of Najib’s cousin Hishammuddin. The defence minister won the seat in 2013 with a majority of 10,631 votes or 63.7% of total votes. It has been UMNO’s traditional stronghold. Using his favourite “you help me, I help you” tactic to fish for votes, was Najib signalling that even Sembrong could fall?

The battle has actually begun, even before Mr. Najib could call for a snap election. While Mahathir has declared that the highly unpopular GST would be scrapped, Najib’s shining star Khairy Jamaluddin (Youth and Sports Minister) plays with another racist topic – provoking the sensitive issue of abolishing vernacular school – hoping it would start a Malay-vs-Chinese war.

Nazri Aziz, the badass who was the most racist minister under previous Mahathir administration, also went bonkers by suggesting both Mahathir and Anwar would kill each other. When even Nazri was speechless that both enemies could become best friends again, you don’t need a rocket scientist to tell how terrified and panicked Najib and his boys are.

Heck, Mr. Nazri was so worry with the latest development that he actually suggested Jamal Yunos, a gangster who tried to terrorize Chinatown but was stopped by China’s ambassador to Malaysia Huang Huikang, should be made UMNO Youth Chief. Has UMNO run out of talents or was Nazri running Najib’s errand of preparing for racial riots, in case they lose?

PM Najib had the cheek to shamelessly declare that the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) is a gift to the people, when in fact the mega project was built using taxpayers’ money. He should instead prove that Saudi Arabia had indeed “gifted” him with US$700 million cash. Likewise, his wife should prove that she hadn’t purchased a RM117 million 22-carat pink diamond necklace using money siphoned from 1MDB.

Anwar Ibrahim had his opportunity but failed to capture the federal government in 2013. Now, Mahathir is the only person left who could charm the simple-minded Malay folks. With Chinese votes basically in the bag, the battle is for Malay support. UMNO insiders were so panicked that the party has started the racial rhetoric last weekend, right after the revelation of Pakatan Harapan’s new leadership structure.

It would be hard for Najib to justify that Mahathir is on a mission to destroy the Malays. However, it would be quite easy for Mahathir to justify that Najib has stolen billions of dollars of Malays’ money. Thanks to 1MDB and Felda scandals, not to mention GST and rising cost of living, Mahathir might be able to convince the Malays that Thief-in-Chief Najib should not even be allowed to own fish as pets.