Najib feels the heat from old Umno hands

Comeuppance or deja vu, Najib feels the heat from old Umno hands What goes around comes around. Just after the 2008 elections, Datuk Seri Najib Razak watched as the then prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi got skewered for Barisan Nasional’s (BN) abysmal showing at the polls, with Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad leading the campaign…

Is Time Running Out for Najib?

Mahathir and his allies want to set a date for Malaysia’s prime minister to move out Forces aligned with former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad appear to be attempting push embattled Malaysian Premier Najib Tun Razak into giving a time frame for his eventual departure from office and naming a successor, sources in Kuala Lumpur say.…

Mahathir Wing of UMNO Turns The Screws on Najib

Former prime minister’s wing veers towards open warfare Pressure is continuing to rise against Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, the latest in the form of an exclusive interview with Mahathir scion Mukhriz in the Malay-language newspaper Berita Harian Sunday expressing concern that the ruling national coalition could lose the next national elections under Najib’s…

Najib’s getting off this tiger’s back

COMMENT In the Malaysian public domain one issue seems to be taking a lot of attention; its source, of all things, is a book. For a people not known to read much, this is bizarre. For it to be written purportedly by Abdullah Badawi, as some have assumed, more bizarre still. Actually ‘Awakening: The Abdullah…

Najib’s ‘poison pill’ for Muhyiddin?

Suddenly, all hell seems to have broken loose in UMNO with rumors of a red-hot challenge for the party’s top posts starting to crystallize which could result in Prime Minister Najib Razak being ousted by 2 of his lieutenants – Deputy Prime Minister Muhyddin Yassin and Home Minister Zahid Hamidi. The latest to lend credence…

Dr M pushing Mukhriz for Umno VP post

INTERVIEW Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is pushing for his son, Mukhriz Mahathir, to be among the new Umno vice-presidents in the party polls, and this may force out one of the incumbent VPs, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, a DAP MP has opined. DAP’s Kluang MP Liew Chin Tong told Malaysiakini in an interview that…