A 93-year-old can’t take the country forward, says Najib

Bede Hong Radzi Razak Bede Hong, Radzi Razak Updated 6 years ago · Published on 20 Jan 2018 11:43AM · 14 Comments

Prime Minister Najib Razak tells Malaysians to 'trust BN', at the launch of Sahabat Puteri BN in Kuala Lumpur, today. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Najjua Zulkefli, January 20, 2018.

MALAYSIA would never achieve developed nation status if it was led by a 93-year-old leader, Prime Minister Najib Razak said today.

Najib did not name the 93-year-old leader he felt was unsuited to lead the country, but he was evidently referring to former Umno stalwart turned Pakatan Harapan leader Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The prime minister said the country could only reach fully developed status in 32 years if Barisan Nasional were in charge, and through the ruling coalition’s National Transformation programme (TN50).

“Trust us, only the current leadership can this lead this nation to a brighter future, one that we will achieve through TN50. We will be among the top 20 nations in the world.

“This is our vision. If you are 93 years old, can you take this country forward?” Najib said at the launch of Sahabat Puteri BN in Kuala Lumpur today.

“If our aspiration is to be among the top 20 nations in the world, how can we rely on a 93-year-old to carry this through?”

The prime minister said the opposition, meanwhile, was an “untested coalition” that was constantly bickering among themselves and could not be relied on.

He said there should be a national “political consciousness” that BN was the only viable coalition government that truly served the people.

About 3,000 members of the women youth wings of 13 BN components and representatives of BN-friendly organisations, or “friends of BN”. such as Pekema, were present. 

Today marks the launch of Azalea, BN’s new women youth wing.

Najib earlier said the women youth wings of BN should no longer move in separate “kelompok” (clusters) but be united as a team.

“Struggle on with the full confidence that it is only us that can fight for our future and fulfil the needs of the people. We have our excellent record of accomplishments.”

In Sabah yesterday, Najib compared himself with Dr Mahathir, with Najib coming out the better prime minister for the state. 

“Not even (Dr Mahathir) in his 22 years as prime minister approved as much development for Sabah as I have since I become the prime minister,” he had said. – January 2, 2018.

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  • ALL crooked PM have ultimately destroyed their country, one with a fake resume, have no clue what he is doing including when he destroyed it all

    Posted 6 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • A 93 year old can't but a thief can

    Posted 6 years ago by Leslie Chan · Reply

  • Malaysians trust a 93 year old compared to u!

    Posted 6 years ago by Anak Malaysia · Reply

  • see BBC U tube house of saud.......clear indication of what UMNO can do to this nation.

    Posted 6 years ago by Mohanarajan murugeson · Reply

  • Najib, you are talking cocok...
    Dr M, contributed more to our development to the nation compare to you.

    Posted 6 years ago by Ss Lee · Reply

  • Najib who are you trying to fool?you are a thief

    Posted 6 years ago by Ss Lee · Reply

  • Hidup Tun M!

    Posted 6 years ago by Uncle Sam · Reply

  • A highly corrupted prime minister like Najib will only move the country backwards, just like what happened in the Philippines, Zimbabwe and elsewhere.

    Posted 6 years ago by Rupert Lum · Reply

  • In Tun Mahathir we trust to jail Najib and fix this country. We trust Tun even if he is 200 years old, yer fxxken lying thief!

    Posted 6 years ago by Kuasa Rakyat · Reply

  • Then you should feel ashamed because we rather have a 93 years old than a 64 years old. Just FYI, age doesn't matter, but quality does.

    Posted 6 years ago by UpDown LeftRight · Reply

  • It's not Dr M who will take us forward. Not that he can't because he is 93 years old. It's PH collectively who will do that for us. And they are young and fresh. You and BN are history come GE14 because your party is old and run out of ideas to move forward. Not to mention full of scandals and what not.

    Posted 6 years ago by Chris Sav · Reply

  • History have taught us that poor leadership will result in disaster & irreparable damage to a nation (organization). We worked with a "Quek" psychopath that has this penchant & talent for bullying, lying, name calling and sexual assault on female staffs/agents. Within 4 years - the company incurred massive losses, low agency morale, declining sales and thousands of agents jumped ship to join competitors. Read more on toxic leadership at changenow083.blogspot.com

    Posted 6 years ago by Chris Ng · Reply

  • Who do you prefer
    A 93 year old veteran
    Or a younger poisonous camelion

    Posted 6 years ago by Harytan456 Tan · Reply

  • I hope all the atuks and neneks out there are reading this whether you are in the city or in the villages. This is the true face of Najib. He thinks old people cannot contribute. He thinks they are there just waiting to transpire. Dear PM, I can tell you, it's the moral compass and clarity of mission that allows anyone to drive a country forward. When you're missing one, no matter how virile you are, you're useless to the nation. When an old man can regain his moral compass, and he's always had that clarity of mission, why should we stop him from trying since you've put DSAI in a cell? He is pre-eminently qualified to fix the problems that you, your wife and your cronies have caused. In another words, we'd rather have an old grand man rather than a virile man to lead us.

    Posted 6 years ago by Quigon Bond · Reply