Pakatan's GE win will stop Najib from destroying Malaysia, says Dr Mahathir

Updated 6 years ago · Published on 27 Mar 2018 9:35AM · 5 Comments

Pakatan chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad says Prime Minister Najib Razak will not be able to destroy the country if the opposition coalition wins the 14th general election. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Farhan Nazmi, March 27, 2018.

PRIME Minister Najib Razak will not be able to destroy the country if Pakatan Harapan (PH) were to win the 14th general election, said Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The Pakatan Harapan (PH) chairman said although it was difficult to unite the opposition to restore Malaysia after Barisan Nasional’s 60-year rule, it was the better choice rather than “letting Najib maintain his kleptocracy”.

“It is not easy for PH to restore the nation but when we rule, Najib will no longer be able to destroy the country,” said the former prime minister in his latest post on his blog chedet.cc.

“Some will think that PH cannot do anything to make things better.

“But the destruction of the nation will be worse if Najib can maintain his kleptocracy. The burden of debts will increase and the country’s states will be sold.”

Dr Mahathir, however, said his team was experienced in saving and restoring the economy, finance, and socio-politics of the nation.

“That we are certain. Reject the kleptocracy of Najib,” he said.

When Dr Mahathir was prime minister from 1981 to 2003, Malaysia had several times faced financial crisis. One is the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 which Dr Mahathir through his policies helped manoeuvre the country out of trouble.

Dr Mahathir also said since the nation’s independence, the good name of Malaysia had never been tarnished so badly like now with Najib as the prime minister.

“Yes, our country has been threatened before by the Internal Security Act (ISA). There has also been corruption in the government under the leadership of Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein and also me.

“But these things had not made Malaysia to be called a nation of graft along with ten other countries in the world that has high levels of corruption – not to a point where the nation is declared a kleptocracy led by criminals, thieves,” he said.

According to Dr Mahathir, the prime minister of Malaysia is said to be “a corrupt leader who is involved in scandals involving billions of government funds, with his name mentioned in several money laundering cases involving 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).”

“The reports on newspapers and television globally clearly and openly reveal that the purchase of luxury homes in London, New York and Hollywood, the purchase of the jetliner, mega yacht, pieces of jewellery worth billions for the prime minister’s wife, gambling in Las Vegas, gifts worth millions to pretty ladies and all sorts of ways to clean the money stolen from the 1MDB fund,” he wrote. – March 27, 2018.

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  • Could Dr.M run foul of the new anti-fake law & be arrested under its provisions for saying this? ..

    Posted 6 years ago by MELVILLE JAYATHISSA · Reply

  • If pakatan wins , the only thing positive development one can expect is that the newly led pakatan goverment will be cleaner , at least for
    a while. But in terms of ideas and approaches and mentality and attitude and character , I imagine the pakatan goverment , if formed,
    will not that much different from the BN led govt. Look at selangor - I have seen it under BN and I have seen it under pakatan, and there is really not much difference at all in the way that they both rule. Will a reduction of corruption alone be enough to halt the continuous decline of Malaysia ? BN might be the problem , but the view that pakatan is the solution sounds far fetched to me ...

    Posted 6 years ago by Nehru Sathiamoorthy · Reply

    • I agreed with you on your observation on Selangor. The poor will just continue to be poor without ability and opportunity (lacked of incentives to build affordable homes unlike KL) to buy an affordable home near their places of work.

      Posted 6 years ago by Can Lim · Reply

  • No problems here. What Mahathir has just said is clearly fake news. Firstly, he has absolutely no objective evidence to support his statement. His statement is nothing more than Islamist/UMNOist fear mongering. Secondly, Malaysia has already been destroyed by 22 yrs of Mahathirism. No debate there. The only people who think otherwise are the DAP who hope to benefit personally by association with Mahathir’s toxic agenda

    Posted 6 years ago by Dennis Da Menace · Reply

  • The people are with u Tun M :)

    Posted 6 years ago by Pakat Pakat · Reply