Puad on Muhyiddin: Do you rely on CEO who caused losses to revive firm?

Puad on Muhyiddin: Do you rely on CEO who caused losses to revive firm?

Umno supreme council Mohd Puad Zarkashi has likened former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin's appointment as the head of the National Recovery Council (NRC) to a chief executive officer who had caused his company financial loss but is relied upon to revive the same firm.

"When a CEO resigns because his company suffered losses, is it then appropriate to reappoint him to revive the company's performance?" he said in a statement on Facebook.

Puad said he couldn't see how Muhyiddin could do better than when he was the prime minister.

"The prime minister had much more power than the NRC chairperson but yet he failed," he said.



PAS Youth chief Khairil Nizam Khirudin

Puad noted that PAS Youth chief Khairil Nizam Khirudin had lauded Muhyiddin as being magnanimous for accepting the position and should be emulated by other senior politicians.

However, he said magnanimity would be to act to the contrary.

"Wouldn't it be more magnanimous of Muhyiddin not to accept the position of NRC chairperson? He was already given the chance as the prime minister for 17 months.

"What is there to be emulated? When has failed and was forced to resign, they shouldn't return with another position," Puad added.

The former prime minister presided over a tumultuous tenure that saw the number of Covid-19 cases swell from 33 on his first day in office on March 1 last year to 1,424,639 when he resigned on Aug 16.

A total of 12,784 people have also died from Covid-19 during the period.

Muhyiddin, who is the Bersatu president, was ousted after 15 Umno MPs withdrew their support for him.

They returned to the fold after it was agreed that Umno vice-president Ismail Sabri Yaakob would take over as prime minister.