ANWAR Ibrahim agrees that he would make a better prime minister than Najib Razak.

“Dr Mahathir is right,” Anwar told reporters on a walkabout today.

He was referring to the prime minister’s statement to the New Straits Times that the Reformasi leader would make a far better leader than Najib.

“I read the interview and I would like to thank Mahathir,” he said.

Anwar said Najib will go down in history as the worst prime minister based on his track record, including for his poor stewardship of the country’s finances.

In the interview published today, Dr Mahathir Mohamad was asked for his opinion of Anwar, whom he had sacked as deputy prime minister in 1998 and later had jailed, but with whom he has reconciled to muster cooperation to successfully oust Najib.

“Between (former prime minister) Najib Abdul Razak and Anwar, I think Najib is a worse leader than Anwar. The worst leader,” he was quoted as saying.

“I think that to have Anwar replace a person like Najib is more acceptable than to have Najib carry on, so I decided that I would work with Anwar – whatever I may have said about him before, what he has said about me before.

“I thought that our working together was far more important in order to displace Najib than it was for us to quarrel because I knew if we didn’t work together, Najib would be the prime minister and that would be disastrous for the country,” Dr Mahathir had said.

Anwar is currently drumming up support for Pakatan Harapan in the April 13 Rantau by-election.

The polls is a four-cornered contest between PH’s Dr S. Streram, BN’s Mohamad Hasan, who is the former Negri Sembilan menteri besar and acting Umno president, and two independent candidates R. Malarvizhi and Mohd Nor Yassin. – April 7, 2019.