Malaysian Politicians Are Busy as Bees

In Malaysia, GE15 is expected to be called soon and politicians are busy as bees. They've already begun to lay plans and start to plot and scheme. 

Najib Razak in a Facebook post yesterday contended that Perikatan Nasional's Muhyiddin Yassin (right) is hypocritical in his support for Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, saying that he is meeting opposition leaders behind his back to topple him. 

He said Muhyiddin had covertly met with Pejuang’s Dr Mahathir Mohamad, PKR’s Anwar Ibrahim and Warisan’s Shafie Apdal in his bid to wrest back the premiership from Ismail. 

“But these three leaders – Mahathir, Anwar and Shafie – who he is lobbying support from also want to become the PM”, asserted Najib.

In fact, a Malay Mail news report published yesterday had Muhyiddin himself confirming that he had met Mahathir to discuss possible collaboration to unseat BN. 

His admission came because a day earlier, Mahathir had already divulged that Muhyiddin had sought his help to enable him to return as prime minister. A FMT report published April 01 had Mahathir even saying Pejuang are not ‘going to support somebody who as the prime minister was as much a failure as Najib (Razak) was”! 

Muhyiddin had in 2020 taken Bersatu out of the Pakatan Harapan coalition, leading to the collapse of the government. He then joined forces with former political enemies UMNO and PAS to form the PN government, with him as the prime minister. 

And in August last year, Muhyiddin, in turn, was supplanted by Ismail (right) who is from UMNO.

I’m reminded by what former US president Ronald Reagan once said: “Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first”. 

Anyway, Malaysian politicians don’t have a good reputation!

Yesterday, Liverpool got the job done, despite an unconvincing performance when they beat Watford 2-0. 

Portugal forward Diago Jota jumped between two Hornets defenders to meet a Joe Gomez cross and head past the opposing side’s goalie in the twenty-second minute. And then, Fabinho's penalty in the eighty-ninth minute secured the points.

The Reds face Benfica on Tuesday in the quarter-finals of the Champions League in Lisbon, Portugal before meeting Manchester City on Sunday in what many are billing as the game that could decide the Premier League title. Needless to say, these are the two games in which they must win!