Hail the new King – Najib the Great and his Knights
UMNO’s political landscape is more or less stabilized. Now that the 59th UMNO general assembly is ending, never mind the current UMNO was actually registered (and should be known) as UMNO Baru (new UMNO) in 1988 after the original UMNO was declared an unlawful society, the new teams comprising mostly Najib Razak’s men are ready to take orders from their new commander.
Former PM Mahathir, whose Team-A was fighting tooth and nail with Team-B led by Razaleigh Hamzah back in 1987 for the then UMNO Presidency was the actual founder of this UMNO-Baru. It was a sad moment that Mahathir did a U-Turn to give this round of UMNO opening another skip after promised to turn up, most likely because his son Mukhriz secured the last place behind Khairi (Mahathir most-hated new kid on the block) and Khir Toyo.
Like it or not Khairi, the son-in-law of outgoing PM Abdullah Badawi, is perhaps the best manToyo. Mukhriz is still raw who’s living under his father’s shadow. He’s still an infant, politically speaking. Without the powerful “Mahathir” word attached to his name Mukhriz may not even qualified for the final round of the competition, let alone securing the 232-votes. Khir Toyo was tainted with corruption allegations so it would be equally disastrous if this man were to win the UMNO Youth Chief post. Khairi may not be an angel and was known for his monkey-remarks and his link to Mat-Rempits, not to mention his rebellious and bad-boy image, but he’s flexible (or rather snaky) enough to adapt to political climate in order to survive. And this guy will survive post-Badawi’s exit. Furthermore it makes perfect sense to have a new chief who does not belong to Najib’s camp otherwise it won’t be fun to have another yes-man who always yell Najib’s fart smells as good as Kentucky Fried Chicken and it’s finger lickin’ good too, compared to Mukhriz Mahathir and Khir
