Why was Lim GE made Finance Minister?

One of the most intriguing and Machiavellian political plots I have read about, which involves considerable political mathematical additions, subtractions and permutations (which would be beyond the ken of Hannah Yeoh, who alas has been deemed by kaytee to be mathematically-challenged since the days of 916 in 2008, wakakaka) has to be the following post:

Now Do You Understand Why Daim Said It’s Foolish For Anwar To Be Made PM Immediately?.

'borrowed' from financetwitter blog 

I read it at Malaysia-Today which in turn obtained it from financetwitter blog.

It's an interesting story which started off with Anwar informing us, rather intriguingly, how the ousted former premier Najib Razak was “totally shattered” the night he lost the general election and called his jailed rival – Anwar Ibrahim – twice for advice on what he should do.

Anwar claimed – “When he called on the night of the election, I advised him as a friend to concede and move on.”

Knowing their awful acrimonious aggressive relationship, that Anwar-revelation has had me puzzled - to wit, why would Najib ring Anwar of all people? - and for which I have long sought an answer. Well, my curiosity has been answered by the financetwitter blog's article, which tells us as follows:

Was Anwar the secret lover of Najib? Was Anwar the long lost biological brother of Najib? If not, does it make any sense that of all the people in the world, ex-PM Najib had chosen to call his enemy seeking advice or looking for a shoulder to cry on?

You don’t need a rocket scientist to tell that Mr. Najib had called Mr. Anwar and offered him a deal to jump ship.

well, obviously I am far from being a rocket scientist wakakaka but I can still recognise a frog 

Mr. Anwar actually didn’t have to divulge the secret calls he received from the despicable Najib Razak. Nobody would know about the calls anyway.

Since the revelation, Najib had neither acknowledged nor denied making such calls. So, those calls on May 9th must be genuine. But why did Anwar reveal the calls? Was he trying to brag about it?

There are two possibilities.

You have to read it yourself to enjoy the high drama, wakakaka, and know why Lim Guan Eng was even appointed Finance Minister by Mahathir, and it's not due to Guan Eng's good looks which we all he (Guan Eng) doesn't have, wakakaka.

Matey, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch, especially with Mahathir. It's all strategic quid pro quo or, if you like, quid pro quo with strategy in mind.

But it taught me or rather re-confirmed to me that the Malay political mind has always been far superior and far more Machiavellian than the Chinese Malaysian political mind, wakakaka.