Malaysians are just like any
other nation’s nationality. They want life of peace and security and to secure
that life the governing leaders must be of high dignity and free from ungainly perceptions
from the public both national and internationally. Politic is a game of
perception and any leader who loses the good and high propriety the nation he leads
will normally tumbles eventually.
The nation with leaders of
upright dignity will give good impulse for the nation to grow in all turfs and arenas.
We can assertively take words of
dignified leader as a bond without many queries and one will be easy to deal
with this kind or leaders as they are normally a gentleman and place his self-possession
high above other things in life.
That was why we are now grasped
in the situation that we are now facing with peculiarities for a democratic
nation as we often claim. We have been fed with leaders oblivious of democratic
morals and conned characters that put the country into a fertile ground for
corruptions and misused of power to prosper unhindered. Who to be blamed for
this to happen? Was it the mode and the manner selection of the PM that we
usually practiced are already out-dated? Or what?
Since we achieved independence
UMNO president has been the automatic choice of the PM and that creates heavy
competition in the race to be the leaders of UMNO. As time passes the money
politics became too overpowering as a result UMMO was laden with leaders who
move up in the party’s hierarchy through money politics and that has gone
unchecked until we face the current height of problems and if not checked it
will bring the nation to kaput. UMNO has failed to produce leaders of self-respect
and as such they become too questionable and doubted when he comes to
power.
Most of them were not there
because of his or her dignified qualities but because of money politics and sycophantic
moves to the top. If the self-dignity has been the consideration of leadership
choices many would believe that Abdullah Badawi and especially the current
sitting PM would not have been there in the first place. The culture of apple polishing
and money politics compounded by personal inferiority complex feelings of the
top leadership put away all the budding leaders to stay within the party’s top
leadership echelon for the past almost three decades. In UMNO remains the
sanctuary for uncouth and confused leaders spending all the time they have to create
the culture of apple polishing for the top leadership.
This has been going on for
decades and now the group of weak and deluded minded leaders are the once to
inherit leadership of this country.
Now the question is will the
ousting of Najib solves all the problems we now face? If Najib is alternated
by wrong choice of leaders again, than we are on the way to another long haul
of leadership problems that we are now fed up with. The choice of the
alternative leadership of the country is accurately crucial material and issue.
As this blog have emphasized for a
long while, alternating leaders by the manner and mode that we used to practice
will in the end resulting in we getting another more mediocre to lead us. As it
is we are now facing with the current most meritocratic PM that we have in our independent
history.
Dr Mahathir has expressed regrets over his relentless efforts to put up the current sitting PM to the position
he holds now. The question now, was his choice to put up Najib was the proper
and appropriate move? Was his effort to put up Najib then was truly for the
sake of the nation? Certainly it was not. So did his choice to put up Najib’s
predecessor Abdullah Badawi.
The grand public knew that these
two personalities do not hold the cut to lead the nation to face the current competitive
world. It’s only Dr Mahathir who can answer this question even though we knew
why he needed these two leaders to inherit his leadership.
We do hope that we especially Dr
Mahathir now realized that a weak successor will only bring him disappointments
and disillusions to him. But let’s us forget and be assured that our decision
is not based on vengeance and revenge. Let us put aside our personal taste but
instead get the feel of the public’s taste and flavor. Dr Mahathir knows the
best person to lead the nation and he needs to own up his mistakes and be what
a Malay fond of saying, ‘jadilah seorang yang berjiwa besar, hargai negara
dahulu dari menghargai diri sendiri yang berlebihan’.
Then he will sleep well and die in
peace. We will then sleep well too, and die to leave this country in peace and
security for next generations to come.
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