Mahathir, Anwar, Najib - 30 years of fateful interactions

The triangular interactions among Mahathir, Anwar and Najib have been interesting since 1987 when UMNO had its own constitutional crisis.

Then Mahathir and Tengku Razaleigh (Ku Li) were competing for the UMNO presidential post and thus the support of 1500 branch delegates, which as history informed us, was won by Mahathir with just a mere 43 votes (Mahathir 761 - Ku Li 718).

I'll come back to this 43 votes shortly, wakakaka.

But the pro Ku Li's faction claimed illegal rigging in the intra party elections.

The unsatisfactory UMNO party elections went to court where Wikipedia informs us, "The plaintiffs alleged that 78 of the delegates had been selected by branches not registered with the Registrar of Societies, and as a result were not eligible to vote. They also claimed that certain documents related to the election had been "tampered with".

I wonder whether that was the genesis of UMNO's art in the magic of making elections winnable against odds as we saw in the Sabah elections 1994 (ask Anwar as he was then UMNO's Director of Elections), wakakaka, and also in PKR (son of UMNO) two hilarious party elections, wakakaka.

To cut the 1987-88 UMNO story short, Judge Harun cited Article 41 of the Societies Act 1966, which stated any society would automatically become 'unlawful' if any of its branches were not registered with the Registrar of Societies.

From above, we could say that Judge Harun agreed with the pro-Ku Li plaintiffs that there were 30 unregistered UMNO branches (78 delegates) which were pro Mahathir.

But clever Judge Harun did a de Bono in not only making the party elections null and void but also the entire existence of UMNO, wakakaka.

And thus, to cut another story short, UMNO Baru was created and which refuses to go away even until today.

I heard rumours that, 78 illegal pro Mahathir delegates aside, wakakaka, the crucial 43 votes were in the hands of Najib.

Najib was said to be initially pro Ku Li, but after Anwar had a 'quiet' word or two with him, wakakaka, he did an alleged volte-face (like LKS, wakakaka) and voted for Mahathir.

It then took Najib a lot of 'shellacking', wakakaka, of Mahathir before his erstwhile 'mentor' forgave him for his 'initial lack of loyalty'. And wasn't Najib known as Mr Zig-Zag?

For example, at that time (after UMNO became Baru, wakakaka) when Mahathir was returning from an overseas trip, guess who was at Subang International with all the paraphernalia and ceremonial pomp and pageantry to garland and 'crown' the then-PM with Srivijaya type of perwira-ish titles? Wakakaka again and again.

1987 - follow me boys 

Now, what was those 'quiet' word or two that Anwar had with him? I am sure we all love to know.

At that time of the UMNO party election crisis, Anwar was UMNO Youth Chief (1982 to 1987) and was about to leave the post to contest to become a Vice President. Guess who took over from him?

Yes, Najib took over as UMNO Youth Chief in 1987.

The rumours were that Anwar advised Najib to f* kuai kuai vote for Mahathir if he wanted to be UMNO Youth Chief.

Would that be true?

Assuming just for an instant, just for hypothetical postulating, that was true, if Najib was not 'swayed' and voted instead of Ku Li, Malaysia might have trotted down a different path to what we had experienced.

That was how Mahathir, Anwar and Najib had an interesting triangular interactions. We could even say that trio monumentally changed Malaysia's history.

Today, due to Mahathir being worried about the Najib government coming after him for FOREX (and god knows what else, as a few could still be plucked out of Najib's hat), the old man has made, in his own esteem (ie. his own judgement), an earth-shaking move.

While previously he had stood totally unmoved by Anwar's protestation of innocence in his sodomy crimes (whether Sodomy I or II) and unapologetic to Anwar throughout until recently, and ...

.. having said Anwar is unfit to be PM because of his sodomy and must NOT ever be allowed to rise to become PM, ...

... he now sings a different song - see MM Online Dr M: I can’t object if Anwar gets royal pardon and becomes PM.

MM Online reported (extracts): ... in a recent interview with UK daily The Guardian.

“In the case of Anwar, we can make a case that he was unfairly treated. The decision of the court was obviously influenced by the government and I think the incoming government would be able to persuade the King to give a full pardon for Anwar.

“In which case he would be able to participate in politics and become PM. I can have no objection to that,”in a recent interview with UK daily The Guardian. “In the case of Anwar, we can make a case that he was unfairly treated. The decision of the court was obviously influenced by the government and I think the incoming government would be able to persuade the King to give a full pardon for Anwar. “In which case he would be able to participate in politics and become PM. I can have no objection to that.”

Now, whether Anwar is innocent or otherwise is besides the point or more correctly, another story.

We have now seen how Mahathir could twist and turn (putar-belit like a serpent) whenever it suits his interests.

I suspect he is now so running scared of the impending RCI for FOREX that he would do anything including sleep with Lim Kit Siang (which he has), support Maria Chin (yes, that too) and now give his approval to Anwar Ibrahim (did I say anything more?).

What will he do next? Suck Ku Li's dick?

30 years later, we still see the interesting triangular interactions among Mahathir, Anwar and Najib.

we're going to get you, you damn brat
or would you prefer a 'word or two' from me?

wakakaka