Team A, Team B: Umno’s ten-year itch

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin

malaysiatoday - [...] Abdullah is not sitting quiet while all this plotting and scheming is going on though. Muhammad son of Muhammad is Abdullah’s choice of Number Two while Ezam Mohd Nor, who has just rejoined Umno, wants to be the new Umno Youth Leader. Khairy Jamaluddin will not waste his time as Youth Leader. He will go for one of the Vice-Presidents posts, which he can easily win hands down.

The Team B of Mahathir, Daim, Najib, Muhyiddin, Ali, Shafiee, Rahim, Shahidan and Mukhriz outguns Abdullah ten to one though. They can easily raise billions of Ringgit to swamp Abdullah’s meagre RM500 million that he has put together to finance the coming Battle Royale. Money versus money, Abdullah will lose. And, from the looks of it, it is going to be all about money.

But Abdullah has a secret weapon to make up for this lack of money. And this secret weapon goes by the name of Ezam Mohd Nor who was paid RM2 million to return to Umno. Ezam will head the revamped Anti-Corruption Agency, which will emerge an independent commission with powers to prosecute. And his first task is to open files on Mahathir, Daim, Najib, Muhyiddin, Ali, Shafiee, Rahim, Shahidan and all those others aligned to Team B who are plotting the downfall of Team A. Yes, many are soon going to see the inside of the Sungai Buloh Prison. Soon there will no longer be any space in the Sungai Buloh Prison for the likes of Raja Petra Kamarudin and his fellow Bloggers.

Nevertheless, while Team A and Team B prepare for battle, another contender is hovering over the horizon. And this is the Lone Ranger Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. But he is not spending billions. He is not even spending RM500 million though he has more than that to his name. He is just using his good name to appeal to the members to do the right thing for the future of Malaysia, Umno, and the Malays.... selanjutnya.