In a frank interview, Nazri Aziz, the minister in charge of law, talks about why he is not taking part in the upcoming party elections, his support for certain candidates, and the need for members to go back to the days when Umno was people-friendly. He also says money politics in Umno has gone underground and he is not confident that delegates will pick the right candidates for the top posts.This is part of the Nazri's frank Q & A with Shahanaz of The Star............
Shahanaz(S) : There are two other candidates (Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib aka Mat Taib and Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam) standing for the deputy post and you did not even mention them?
Nazri Aziz(NA) : First of all, I cannot support them, not for personal reasons but for real, practical reasons. The deputy Prime Minister will succeed the Prime Minister. We can’t discount the fact that anything can happen and if anything happens to the PM, the deputy PM will take over. For Ali (Rustam) and Mat Taib to take over, it is not possible and is unconstitutional because they are not even MPs.
(Tumpang Sekole(TS) : Indirectly Nazri Aziz is telling UMNO that Ali Rustam and Mat Taib cannot be trusted coz these 2 jokers are very corrupted and arent fit to wear the DPM shoe. Remember Mat Taib's journey to Australia with 2 briefcase stuffed with 2 million foreign currency? Btw, can a person who says "me speak no Inglish" become a DPM?)
S : The March 8 general election was an eye opener as Umno suffered from the loss of support. Why have Umno members not realised this and tried to bring the party back on track instead of engaging in money politics?
NA : Because Umno members go into politics for self-gain and self-interest! They are assuming that the party will never lose! They do not see what happened as a warning of what is to come in the future. They think the public has regretted their decision (to vote the Opposition) and Barisan will get back the support. They think it’s temporary and that elections are like a pendulum that will swing back in their favour, and that we win big in one election and we lose a bit in the next. They say in the 1986 general election the pendulum was on our side and we won big; in 1990 we did badly because of Semangat 46; in1995 we won big again and in 1999 we suffered and lost Terengganu; in 2004 we won big. For them, the 2008 election was a pendulum, so they think they can just sit down and not work because they assume the pendulum will swing back to us in the next election.
(TS : You are right Nazri. UMNO always assumes it cannot lose in any GE. UMNO also believes that the Malays are always 100% behind them coz UMNO knows "Melayu mudah lupa". So even if their leaders are involved in corruption,power abuse....its OK and they get away scot free.)
S: Are they right?
NA : Of course they are wrong. We have to work and be people friendly. Umno members must go back to the days when Umno was people friendly. Ikut rasmi padi lagi berisi lagi tunduk (The more you have, the more humble you are). But what we see today is that when you become minister or hold a post, you are behaving like warlords and not people friendly at all. Mana boleh (how can that be)? We have to change. We must accept reality that we can’t behave in the way we behaved in the 60s and 70s when we could shout and say anything and the public still accepted us. It’s different now with the Internet. Whatever you say, people will come to know straightaway. So you have to behave yourself. The public are more demanding now, and rightly so.
Another mistake Umno is making is telling the people they must be grateful for what the Barisan government has done for them. That is wrong. What we do for the rakyat, we are duty bound to do. Because when we stood for election, we said ‘you elect me and I’ll do this, this and this.’ So they delivered their part by electing me and I have to do what I promised the rakyat. I can’t turn around and say ‘rakyat, you must be grateful to me.’ I can’t lecture them on that because it was I who made the promise.
(TS : UMNO always wants the rakyat to be grateful to the gomen(UMNO)....for what? After all the infrastuctures provided for are paid by the rakyat, it isnt UMNO's money. Nak greatful for what? Since UMNO forms the gomen its mandatory on their part to provide all these amenities, but UMNO thinks otherwise.)
S : Does this election make you more pessimistic?
NA : If we don’t change. I don’t like the number 13 (13th general election ). The RAHMAN theory is coming to an end, isn’t it? We are coming to the last of the R-A-H-M-A-N Prime Ministers. After that we don’t know. We have to work hard.
(TS :The RAHMAN Prophecy states that the initials of the first 6 PM of Malaysia shall spell out the name “R-A-H-M-A-N”. If this prophecy is true how come Tengku Abdul Rahman is represented by the letter “R” while Abdul Razak is represented by the letter “A”. Yes, the R-A-H-M-A-N prophecy is coming to an end with Najib taking over premiership soon. But its Mohd. Najib bin Abdul Razak and should be represented with the letter "M" instead but why "N" or maybe "M" which will literally mean.....UMNO akan mati.....after Najib, allahu a'alam)
source:the sTar online
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