EX MEMBERS BEWARE

Now that Tun has left the party amidst the glaring controversies chiefly being lingam gate, one wonders what course ahead may he charter. Pak Lah may have added the clause supreme of not allowing party leavers joining back so the question persists as what options available to the disgruntled members. Some with vested interests, would never even contemplate that way of action in the first place leaving the lower rung adherents much at liberty to follow their hearts
It must, be said, that the insuppressible Tun has charisma and it is largely on this point that a great many are still spellbound by him, they being all makes of Malaysians, is less, than an inkling, but more of a gospel truth should one care to delve a bit deeper. Just goes to show that this peculiar like, engagingness is a momentous bestowal should the personage having it knows how to go about manipulating its manifold potentialities.
In other words, Tun has charm and he knows how to use it, however charm alone would not have sufficed if not for the salient factors attached to it. Tun was the supreme leader for a good twenty- two years with many a young and impressionable Malaysian growing up having his presence very much at the backs of their minds. Coupled with his benign fatherly disposition, quite numerous of the ordinary subjects, would be hard pressed not to include a somewhat affectionate sensibility in their reflections about him. Be it not for the Anwar affair, his tenure, would not, have been, contentiously stopped, after only three years into the new century.
That was, whence he made out of his own volition the statement that he was going to step down and naming his successor at the same time. The replacement was Pak Lah about eighteen months later much as vociferated in Tun’s dramatic speech the year before.
Well said but Tun all in all is much his own person the reason his deputies could never live up to him, he had four during his premiership with Pak Lah being the last and the one and only succeeding him. Anwar, was perceived by Tun, to be a threat, one who was getting to be too popular thus could be forcing him into a premature retirement.
Along with words uttered that somehow seeped into him that Anwar, his deputy then would be challenging him for the party presidency, pretty much sealed the fate of the Deputy President right about that moment. The ignominious methods that were utilized, to hurl Anwar out of the party and into forced incarceration alongside being beaten whilst blindfolded and handcuffed, all the time still in detention bears the infamy that was Malaysia’s polity during that epoch.
Until this day, Tun could never mention Anwar’s name without a lump in his throat, aggravated all, the more, by the quaint possibility that he could very well be the next Prime Minister in the not too distant future.
Pak lah too was far off the mark that Tun had hoped the current Premier to have easily albeit quiescently reached in satisfying the preconditions that was laid out to him right before his ascension to power. Howsoever the opposite actually happened whence Pak Lah at every opportunity cut down much of Tun’s would be unforgettable legacies.
Being number one Pak Lah’s verily understands the dutiful obligation, that he must instill his newly installed presence into the subconscious of the populace. He must have his own philosophy and his own leadership regardless of any niggling bits.
Alas! That was hard to come by as for the twenty- two years that his predecessor had ruled, a priori, Tun’s management style had pervaded right through the entire spectrum, making things a bit too contentious for Pak Lah should he commence his own ‘moral code’. He could not rock the boat, or it would capsize and be a bit near impossible to put back to order- shipshape and seaworthy more so. In turn, this undue incapableness, seemingly, could be Pak Lah’s unfortunate heritance, should he, be ousted from power later on.
On the other hand, he did initiate greater leeway into the workings of democracy in Malaysia together with releasing Anwar from jail, much to Tun’s chagrin. By saying that the law must run its course Pak Lah’s put it to the judges that he would not interfere with their impending decision. Subsequently, Anwar, was set free and Khairy, Pak Lah’s son in law even went to his house later in the evening to see to it that Anwar would not at all be hindered in him seeking treatment overseas, passport wise or the like.
As things came to be, Anwar is now the de facto leader of Pakatan Rakyat , the alliance of three political parties, parallel with, the biggest ever opposing joint action in Parliament and Pak Lah is the current Prime Minister, helming Barisan Nasional the ruling coalition in Malaysia.
Well and good is it not, a rather fanciful dissertation mimicking an armchair observer’s view of things, trying to end this littlest essay of his by cautioning the ex members to the likelihood that they would not be so soon returning to their beloved party as misunderstood heroes but more of unwitting pioneers into another consociation.
The probability of them becoming pawns in yet another high profile chess game must also not be discounted, particularly so, whence all and sundry that Tun had planned for came to be. What Tun really desired for was 35 Umno Law makers joining him on the periphery, a magic figure that could put a stop to whatever plans his adversaries have in store
He very well knows that Anwar will only set things in motion when he has a greater number of Malay MP’s on his side compared to Pak Lah in order to put at rest any inklings of him bypassing Malay concerns should PR take over the Federal Government
He already has the numbers but he must strive, a fraction more, to effectively, secure a smooth change of power. Peculiarly Malay sentiments are quite perturbed as of now being the minutest afraid that they would lose any semblance of residual power should Anwar gung ho like charges at the pinnacle without any due concern for the composition of his mesmeric procedural dictate. Sixty percent of the country’s population has its inescapable implorations.
All would be unwell for Pak Lah should he looses quite any number of Malay representatives in the coalition making a snap Parliamentary elections not entirely out of the equation. Something that he would really hoped for as on the fence voters- bumiputras or otherwise could possibly swing their votes back to Bee End due to wavering concerns of losing whimsical sons of soil stewardship and lack of direction in forging ahead with pertinent running of government along with taking charge of the confederation’s multifold imperatives. The YDP AGONG has the final say on that course of action, as to how he decides, one can only guess. DAULAT TUANKU!
Apparently all the talk about Ketuanan inadvertently albeit unnecessarily has seeped into the Malay psyche that in some way could lead to substantive discourses on traits that need be, compulsorily affixed, to notions of mature democracies must bide for time for just a little bit more. Meanwhile Tun gleefully waits ever more so.
On the latest as regards lingamgate, Tun challenges to go all the way, he has that many stories to tell and they are trickling out little by little. The wily chap, he does think of everything does not he. However so we may plan all we want, God is still the best of planners. Wallahualam.