Editor’s note: This is an interesting observation by veteran journalist and blogger Datuk Seri A. Kadir Jasin on the subject of attempts to overthrow the five-month old unity government helmed by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The observation first appeared on the Facebook page of the former Bersatu supreme council member.
READING the mainstream media reports and the social media chattering, I sensed that the Prime Minister’s (PM) own supporters are spooking him.
Stories are told of conspiracies and plots to topple him. Some of these speculations, storytelling and hearsays are being manufactured and circulated to demonise PM’s purported enemies.
One such spook who fashioned himself as corporate leader and advisor to the PM even accused former PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad of being behind the belligerence of the Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor.
But in doing so, they exposed their own fears and lack of confidence in Anwar as PM. They make him out to be weak and vulnerable.
Almost invariably, the purported conspirators and plotters are the very same people who were accused of disposing him more than two decades ago.
In reality, these so-called conspirators and plotters are nothing by way of power and influence when compared to him. How could they then topple him?
Unless of course these speculators, storytellers and soothsayers believe that the PM is so utterly weak, helpless and powerless.
Or they are creating these dreadful spectres (ghosts) in order to spook him so that he becomes more dependent on them.
For context, I dare say that Anwar is as powerful as the sixth PM Datuk Seri Najib Razak. Like Najib, he’s both the PM and Finance Minister.
When Dr Mahathir was the Pakatan Harapan (PH) PM (2018-2020), he wasn’t a finance minister. The same applies to Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. Dr Mahathir was abiding by the PH policy that PM should not hold any additional portfolio.
By sidelining the PH policy, Anwar controls both power and money. Yet his fanatical supporters are continuing to churn out stories that he is in eminent danger of being toppled by his powerless adversaries. Or maybe they know something that we the outsiders don’t!
With tens of thousands eager supporters and well-wishers reported to have thronged his Malaysia Madani open house in Kedah – an enemy state – his mainstream and social media promoters should sound more confident.
Give him courage and stop frightening him with ghosts and demons. – May 1, 2023
The views expressed are solely of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Focus Malaysia.
