COMMENT | Thus ends Sabah distraction, next stop – the recession
COMMENT | So today, Sabah Bersatu leader Hajiji Mohd Noor is being sworn as leader of the new state government. Congrats, sir.
The candidacy of his rival, Sabah Umno chief Bung Moktar Radin, is over. In a word Bung-kus.
The people of Sabah have spoken, and I suppose they think that leaders like Bung and Star president Jeffrey Kitingan, two of the most ridiculed MPs in the Dewan Rakyat for their coarse manners and party-hopping, respectively, are a way to restore the dignity that has long been blowing in the wind. Or rather beneath it.
Perhaps the less that can be said about voters that would choose such individuals the better – Bung himself held a press conference on election night, Saturday, flanked by the commander-in-thief who is a convicted felon from Pekan.
A lack of progress in underdeveloped states like Sabah and Kelantan is nothing new. Thus we should not be surprised that the voters there have learnt to revel in this backwardness and embrace racial and religious chauvinism wrapped up in bows of corruption and hypocrisy.
It also doesn't help that the leaders from the other side (at least at the national level) – are looking increasingly out of touch.
Let's be honest - senile is the word...
As endless rounds of political battles are waged, we could be hurtling towards economic disaster.
