Ia merupakan 2 daripada "pilihan" yang diberikan bekas perdana menteri itu kepada Umno, susulan kritikan beliau kepada Najib selama ini.
"Kita berdepan dengan pilihan-pilihan ini.
"Sama ada kamu singkirkan perdana menteri yang gagal dan akan memimpin Umno untuk tewas dalam PRU akan datang.
"Atau kamu ambil peluang yang jika beliau disingkirkan, kita mungkin mampu selamatkan Umno," katanya pada sidang media selepas forum jenayah perang di Kuala Lumpur hari ini.
Beliau berkata demikian sewaktu ditanya sama ada perselisihan faham di antara beliau dan Najib yang menjadi tumpuan ramai mutakhir ini akan memecah belahkan Umno.
Kenyataan terbaru Dr Mahathir ini menandakan bekas perdana menteri paling lama berkhidmat itu tidak lagi berlapik dalam menghamburkan asakan demi asakan kepada Najib.
Pada sidang media sama, Dr Mahathir turut menyifatkan Najib tidak layak menjadi perdana menteri kerana gagal menjelaskan lokasi dana kontroversi 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
Kenyataan itu dilontar Dr Mahathir di sebalik ungkapan sinisnya yang beliau bersimpati dengan Najib berhubung isu jambatan bengkok menghubungkan Johor Baru dan Singapura yang tidak diteruskan.
"Saya tak akan sarankan penyingkiran seorang perdana menteri semata-mata kerana beliau takutkan Singapura untuk membina jambatan.
"Saya simpati dengannya kerana beliau sangat lemah, jadi beliau tidak boleh bina jambatan...
"Kerana itu, saya maafkan dia. Tetapi apabila kamu menghilangkan wang dan tidak boleh jelaskan ke mana perginya wang itu, saya rasa kamu tidak layak jadi perdana menteri," kata Dr Mahathir.
Kenyataan terkini Dr Mahathir ini juga menandakan perseteruan di antara beliau dan Najib memasuki fasa baru apabila gesaan agar Umno menjatuhkan Najib dibuatnya secara terbuka.
Sebelum ini, kritikan Dr Mahathir ditumpukan kepada prestasi Najib - yang antara lain menurutnya terbukti gagal sewaktu mengetuai Barisan Nasional (BN) Selangor pada PRU lalu.
Dr Mahathir berkata, Najib kerap kali tidak menjawab soalan berkenaan pengurusan wang negara yang diajukannya.
Tekanan ke atas Najib juga turut meningkat apabila Dr Mahathir mula campur tangan dalam kes pembunuhan wanita Mongolia, Altantuyaa Shaariibuu yang dilakukan dua bekas polis yang pernah bertugas mengiringi Najib.
Dr Mahathir bertemu dengan ibu salah seorang polis tersebut, Sirul Azhar Umar, yang dihukum gantung tetapi kini berada di Australia untuk berlindung daripada hukuman itu.
Beliau dilaporkan akan ke Australia untuk bertemu Sirul selepas ini dan mendapat maklumat tambahan berkenaan pembunuhan yang didakwa bekas anggota Unit Tindakan Khas itu, dilakukan "menurut arahan".
Sementara itu, mengulas perkara berbeza, Dr Mahathir sekadar menjawab "tidak tahu" apabila ditanya wartawan tentang cadangan agar beliau, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah membentuk pasukan memimpin Malaysia dan menyingkirkan Najib daripada terus menjadi perdana menteri.
Cadangan itu diajukan bekas menteri yang bertanggungjawab hal ehwal undang-undang, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim dalam blognya.- tmi
Dr M is after Najib over 1MDB, not crooked bridge...
Former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad today said his main beef with Prime Minister Najib Razak is over the debt-ridden 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and not the crooked bridge to Singapore that was shelved by Putrajaya.
"I wrote about 1MDB but people say 'Oh, he is unhappy not with 1MDB but with the crooked bridge.
"I don't advocate the removal of a prime minister because he is too afraid of Singapore to build a crooked bridge," Mahathir was quoted as saying by The Star Online today.
Mahathir
sarcastically added that he was "sympathetic" over Najib’s weak
political position and thus cannot push for the construction of the
bridge which was initially proposed more than a decade ago."So for that I excuse him - but when you lose money and cannot explain where the money is, I think you are not competent to become prime minister," said Mahathir.
Mahathir, who served as prime minister for 22 years is on a war path with Najib, insisting that the later will lead Umno to defeat in the next general election.
However, Najib's team struck back, forcing Mahathir's son Mukhriz, who is Kedah menteri besar, to pledge support to Najib or resign.
Mukhriz has yet to declare his stance but said he will do so on April 24.
Can’t comment on Mukhriz
Asked to comment on this, Mahathir refused to weigh in on the matter.
“That’s unfair. (The) Kedah menteri besar is my son. I can’t answer, it’ll be biased,” he was quoted as saying by the Malay Mail Online.
Mahathir also refused to respond to a proposal for him to work with former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to oust Najib, merely replying "I don't know" repeatedly.
The proposal was mooted yesterday by former minister Zaid Ibrahim.
Mahathir has attacked Najib on several fronts, including the massive RM42 billion debt by 1MDB, his family wealth as well as the motive of Altantuya Shaariibuu's murder.
Najib, in an interview on national television to respond to the allegations, had alluded that Mahathir was attacking him because he was upset over the crooked bridge and the Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) policy.- mk
DAP Mahu Kerjasama Dengan Tun Mahathir...
Pemimpin veteran DAP, Lim Kit Siang menyatakan beliau sanggup bekerjasama dengan bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.
Katanya, beliau sanggup bekerjasama dengan musuh ketat politiknya itu supaya Ketua Umum Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dapat dibebaskan daripada Penjara Sungai Buloh.
“Tidak meragukan bahawa agenda utama untuk `menyelamatkan Malaysia’ adalah dengan pembebasan Anwar supaya dapat kembali kepada politik negara.
“Atas agenda itu, saya bersedia untuk bekerjasama dengan Mahathir bagi menyelamatkan Malaysia,” dakwanya dalam satu kenyataan hari ini.
Anwar dihukum penjara selama lima tahun kerana didapati bersalah oleh mahkamah meliwat bekas pembantu peribadinya, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.
Mahathir pula sejak kebelakangan ini pula sering mengkritik pentadbiran kerajaan kerana tidak berpuas hati dengan keengganan kerajaan melaksanakan projek pembinaan jambatan bengkok di Johor.– MYNEWSHUB
To save M'sia, Kit Siang willing to work with Dr M...
Lim said as the country is being torn apart by political crises in both BN and Pakatan, he is even willing to work with Mahathir if it will save the country.
This, he said is regardless of former information minister Zainuddin Maidin's allusions to "skeletons in Mahathir's cupboard"."The focus of the present must be unwaveringly to 'Save Malaysia' from the present roller-coaster policies that threaten to plunge Malaysia down the slippery slope, whether in nation-building, politics, economics, education or other aspects of national life to that of a failed state.
"For this formidable task, we must be prepared to put our differences in the past to one side and concentrate all our energies on one common agenda, to save Malaysia from all centrifugal forces (that will) tear the country asunder.
"On this agenda, I am prepared even to work with Mahathir to save Malaysia,” said Lim in a speech to Malaysian students in Alexandria, Egypt yesterday.
Lim said recent events in the political scene require a completely new approach, one that he had been mooting lately of a "new coalition" across both existing BN and Pakatan leaders in order to defend the federal constitution and the country's fundamental freedoms.
"The events of the past 26 days have fortified the need for new thinking, even thinking the unthinkable, about the unprecedented political landscape evolving in the country, for not only are the two political coalitions in the country [...] in serious trouble, the very existence of the Malaysian federation has been called into question for the first time since the formation of Malaysia in 1963," said the Gelang Patah MP.
'Abnormal times'
"Never before has the ruling coalition in Malaysia come under such intense attack," said Lim, commenting on Mahathir's open attacks against Najib and his policies, while admitting Pakatan itself was on the brink of collapse over the hudud row.
"It is no exaggeration to say that both BN and Pakatan Rakyat are facing a 'life-and-death crisis, which has mushroomed into a life-and-death crisis for the Malaysian Federation formed in 1963."
"It
is in these abnormal political circumstances where the politics of the
country seemed to have entered 'no man’s land'," said Lim, that he has
mooted the idea of new partnerships.Lim's remark comes the same day former law minister Zaid Ibrahim suggested Mahathir mend ties with his former number deputy and jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim after 17 years of animosity.
Zaid, a former Umno leader who joined PKR and then left under acrimonious circumstances, had often been critical of Anwar, particularly when he decided to run against the PKR de facto leader in the Kajang by-election last year.
However, in a surprising change of heart, Zaid yesterday said Anwar and Mahathir are the only two people who could unite the nation and steer it out of the present morass.
In his blog posting, he also cited a purported meeting between PKR deputy president and Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali and Mahathir in London, which remains unconfirmed, asking if it was a prelude to the "mother of all meetings". - mk
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