Idris Jusoh adalah Menteri Besar Terengganu hanya untuk satu tempoh dari Mac 2004 hingga Mac 2008. Sebelum Mac 2004, Tok Guru Hadi Awang, Presiden PAS, adalah Menteri Besar, jugauntuk satu penggal.
Pada bulan Mac 2008, Ahmad Said menggantikan Idris Jusoh sebagai Menteri Besar dan pada Mei tahun ini, beliau telah dipilih untuk penggal kedua. Yang boleh dianggap sebagai suatu misteri besar kepada kebanyakan orang-orang yang mengenali kedua-dua Idris Jusoh dan Ahmad Said ialah Idris Jusoh adalah pintar (untuk standard UMNO) manakala Ahmad Said adalah bangang (walaupun untuk standard UMNO).
Malah, Idris Jusoh agak popular dengan ahli-ahli Umno di Terengganu. Sedangkan Ahmad Said, rata2 kita tahu popular, tidak. (Ingat 'natang' demonstrasi anti-istana pada tahun 2008?)
Dalam pilihan raya umum Mei tahun ini, Barisan Nasional memenangi empat kerusi Parlimen dan pembangkang juga memenangi empat. Oleh itu, ia dianggap 'dewan tergantung'. Daripada 32 kerusi negeri, pembangkang memenangi 15 dan Barisan Nasional 17.
Kemundian Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri,Besut,meninggal dunia. Jika PAS berjaya menang kerusi dalam pilihan raya kecil itu, pembangkang akan memilikki 16 kerusi negeri berbanding 16 Barisan Nasional - satu lagi situasi 'dewan tergantung' - bermakna Terengganu mungkin perlu mengadakan pilihan raya negeri yang baru.
Tetapi Umno berjaya mengekalkan kerusi DUN Besut disebabkan oleh Idris Jusoh. Malah, kerusi parlimen dan empat kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri di Besut adalah kubu kuat Umno kerana Idris Jusoh.
Jadi mengapakah Ahmad Said dan bukan Idris Jusoh menjadi Menteri Besar Terengganu? Dan mengapa Idris Jusoh dikeluarkan selepas hanya satu penggal manakala Ahmad Said telah diberikan penggal kedua? Siapakah dalang di belakang ini?
Masalahnya, Idris Jusoh tidak popular dengan Yang Teramat Mulia Sultan Terengganu manakala Ahmad Said disayangi tuanku. Dan sejarah telah menunjukkan kepada kita bahawa mana-mana Menteri Besar yang tidak popular dengan Sultan tidak akan mendapat untuk berkhidmat penggal kedua atau bahkan mungkin tidak dapat untuk melengkapkan satu penggal.
Persepsi umum adalah bahawa Duli Yang Maha Mulia kecewa besar dengan Idris Jusoh kerana Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dan Patrick Lim menabung RM20 juta setahun untuk program Piala Monsun
Sebenarnya, Idris Jusoh mahu menghadkan bayar hanya RM200 juta kepada pembinaan istana baru Duli Yang Maha Mulia Sultan Terengganu di Bukit Cendering manakala Ahmad Said bersedia untuk berbelanja lebih daripada RM1 bilion. Oleh itu, sudah tentu, Yang Teramat Mulia Sultan lebih suka Ahmad Said Idris Jusoh sebagai Menteri Besar.
Dan bil, saya diberitahu, telah menyentuh lebih daripada RM1 bilion. Bil-bil masih datang dan Ahmad Said yang meluluskan semua dan setiap bil yang datang untuk pembayaran. Pintu hadapan istana sahaja kos RM350, 000, jumlah yang boleh membayar untuk pendidikan beratus-ratus nelayan miskin dan anak-anak petani.
Nah, Terengganu adalah negeri kedua terkaya di Malaysia walaupun rakyatnya adalah yang kedua termiskin. Oleh itu, mereka mampu membina istana yang kosnya melebihi RM1 bilion, lebih mahal daripada istana Agong baru di ibu negara persekutuan Malaysia. Dan selagi Ahmad Said terus meluluskan semua bil-bil serta memberi keistimewaan konsensi tanah perlombongan dan tanah hutan kayu kepada rakan-rakan Yang Teramat Mulia Sultan dan ahli keluarga isteri beliau maka dia boleh menjadi MB paling lama berkhidmat di Terengganu - kecuali negeri tersebut jatuh ke tangan pembangkang dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.
Rakyat Terengganu tahu apa yang sedang berlaku dan mereka marah. Dan jika Terengganu jatuh ke tangan pembangkang pada pilihan raya umum akan datang Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak hanya perlu menyalahkan diri sendiri kerana membenarkan Menteri Besar menghabiskan berbilion-bilion pada pembaziran seperti pembinaan istana dan memberi konsesi beratus-ratus juta dalam perlombongan dan konsesi balak ke istana dan kroni2 mereka dalam lingkungan istana. - RPK,Malaysia Today
1 billion reasons Idris Jusoh was ousted...
Idris Jusoh was the Menteri Besar of Terengganu for only one term from March 2004 to March 2008. Before March 2004, Tok Guru Hadi Awang, the PAS President, was the Menteri Besar, for also one term.
In March 2008, Ahmad Said replaced Idris Jusoh as the Menteri Besar and in May this year he was given a second term. And that can be considered as a great mystery to most people who personally know both Idris Jusoh and Ahmad Said because Idris Jusoh is intelligent (for Umno standards) while Ahmad Said is a nitwit (even for Umno standards).
In fact, Idris Jusoh is quite popular with the Umno members in Terengganu. Ahmad Said, as most of us already know, is not. (Remember the ‘natang’ anti-palace demonstration in 2008?)
In the May general election this year, Barisan Nasional won four parliament seats and the opposition also won four. Hence it was a ‘hung parliament’. Of the 32 state seats, the opposition won 15 and Barisan Nasional 17.
Then the state assemblyman for Besut died soon after that. And if PAS had managed to win that seat in the by-election that followed, the opposition would have controlled 16 state seats against Barisan Nasional’s 16 -- another ‘hung state parliament’ situation -- which probably meant that Terengganu may have needed to hold a new state election.
But Umno managed to retain the Besut state seat mainly due to Idris Jusoh. In fact, the one parliament seat and four state seats in Besut are Umno strongholds because of Idris Jusoh. If not because of Idris Jusoh, Terengganu would now be under opposition control.
So why is Ahmad Said and not Idris Jusoh the Menteri Besar of Terengganu? And why was Idris Jusoh removed after only one term while Ahmad Said was given a second term? And who was the person behind this?
The thing is, Idris Jusoh is not popular with His Highness the Sultan of Terengganu while Ahmad said is. And history has shown us that any Menteri Besar who is not popular with the Sultan does not get to serve a second term or even get to complete one term, never mind from which state it may be.
The common perception is that His Highness is pissed with Idris Jusoh big-time because of Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s and Patrick Lim’s RM20 million a year money-wasting Monsoon Cup (which we reported about yesterday HERE). That, of course, is the spin.
Patrick Lim and Kamal Badawi
The truth is, Idris Jusoh wanted to put a ceiling of only RM200 million to His Highness the Sultan of Terengganu’s new palace on Bukit Cendering while Ahmad Said was prepared to spend more than RM1 billion. Hence, of course, His Highness the Sultan prefers Ahmad Said to Idris Jusoh as the Menteri Besar.
And the bill, I was told, has already touched RM1 billion and has not stopped there. The bills are still coming in and with joy and glee Ahmad Said is approving all and every additional bill that comes in for payment. The front door of the palace alone costs RM350,000, an amount that could pay for the education of hundreds of poor fishermen and farmer children.
Well, Terengganu is the second richest state in Malaysia although its people are the second poorest. Hence they can afford a palace in excess of RM1 billion, which costs even more than the new Agong’s palace in the federal capital of Malaysia. And as long as Ahmad Said continues to approve all the bills plus dishes out mining and timber land to His Highness the Sultan’s friends and family members of his consort then he may yet be the longest serving Menteri Besar in Terengganu -- unless the state falls to the opposition in the next general election.
The Terengganu people know what is going on and they are angry and watching. And if Terengganu falls into the hands of the opposition come the next general election then Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has only himself to blame for allowing the Menteri Besar to spend billions on wastages such as palaces and dish out hundreds of millions in mining and timber concessions to the palace and those cronies within the palace circle.
Let it be known that Najib has been warned and he ignores this warning at his own peril.-RPK,Malaysia Today
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