ATTORNEY-General Mohamed Apandi Ali should immediately resign if he does not wish to be “the greatest obstacle” to legal reform, said DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang.

“The two weeks of stalling… is petty and long enough,” Lim said in a statement today, adding that the the A-G was a political appointee of of former prime minister Najib Razak.

Lim said Apandi’s continued service subjected the high office of the attorney-general to the “further indignity of being asked to go on leave and other forms of public humiliation.”

Lim said each vote against the former government in the May 9 elections was not only to “throw out” Najib but also a “personal vote of no confidence” in Apandi.

By now, Lim said, the political appointees of the Najib administration, whether they are senators or in government-linked corporations and public bodies, should have submitted their resignations.

But few of the alleged 17,000 political appointees have resigned voluntarily, he said. 

“The state of civic and political consciousness among these former wielders of power and influence in the country is so low and primitive that until now only the  former Johor Baru MP Tan Sri Shahrir Abdul Samad has acted honourably in resigning as the Felda chairman after the general election,” Lim said. 

“What are these 17,000 political appointees awaiting for?” – May 23, 2018.