When news broke which Defense Minister Zahid Hamidi had chickened out of a float ! upon a c ontroversial Scorpene submarine during a 11th hour, there was a flurry of calls for Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to also withdraw. Don't go, it's a trap! Remember Fuad Stephens! Remember a curse from a birthday cakes! were between a cries of protest from his supporters which included Pakatan Rakyat members.
But float a Scorpene, which has cost Malaysian taxpayers a flattering penny as well as left a nation stuck with billion-ringgit debts for a subsequent dual decades during least, Guan Eng did. Keeping him company were PKR's Mansor Othman as well as DAP's P Ramasamy.
"I have an additional official function to attend to. They will really be back," Zahid told reporters this afternoon, intuiting a unspoken question.
Guan Eng as well as group have been due to lapse from a dive as well as be back during a Hotel Awana Porto Malai around 4pm.
Why let BN put us in a spot
If a Pakatan group lapse safely, afterwards there would be zero so sinister about Zahid's sudden withdrawal. Umno as well as BN would probably try to spin a situation upon a Pakatan Rakyat led by Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.
But what is significant is essentially a character unwell which is apropos transparent in so most Umno leaders of late. Not usually do they feel they have a right to make sudden U-turns as they wish despite having given transparent assurances to a contrary, the! y right away behave as well as speak with impunity, meaningful which a courts as well as a police will certainly take their sides as well as urge thier wrong doings.
In a box of Zahid, he obviously thought zero of leaving Guan Eng as well as group in a lurch. Given a BN's cruel track record, most hold which Lim, Mansor as well as Ramasamy should not have taken a risk.
"It is not worth it. Guan Eng is a really influential leader. He is not only a excellent statesman but a man with ideas as well as a vision. Obviously, he would be a categorical target for a BN, not which you am saying they would resort to murder although you also have a Alta! ntuya in cident which really reeks of desperation," PKR clamp boss Chua Jui Meng toldMalaysia Chronicle.
"But a fact is, accidents do happen. So if Zahid himself doesn't dare to take a risk, because should a Pakatan leaders be put upon a spot. Of course, if something happened to Guan Eng, Mansor as well as Ramasamy, you can be certain BN would have already mislaid themselves a subsequent general election. But you consider a lives of a leaders have been more important."
Raising a mental recall of Fuad Stephens
Mohammad Fuad Stephens was a first Chief Minister of Sabah, as well as also a first Huguan Siou or Paramount Leader of a Kadazandusun community. In 1964, he stepped down as Chief Minister in order to become a first Malaysian sovereign cabinet part of from Sabah
In 1973, Fuad was allocated as a administrator of Sabah, well known as a Yang di-Pertua Negara (the post was later well known as Yang di-Pertua Negeri). He held this position until 1975. Later which same year, Fuad together with Harris Salleh shaped a new domestic celebration called Berjaya as well as proceeded to win a 1976 state election, defeating Tun Mustapha's USNO.
Forty-four days later, he died in a craft crash, as well as till now, Sabahans have sour memories of how as well as because he died. The guess is still clever which ! a Umno-l ed sovereign government was behind a pile-up as Fuad wanted to lift Sabah out from a Federation due to a deadlock over a negotiations for oi royalty.
Recently, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, who was afterwards a Finance minister as well as a architect of a Petronas Development Act 1974, recounted to a ! East Mal aysian press of how he nearly died in which pile-up with Fuad. At a last moment, an official had sensitively motioned him to leave a craft as well as underneath sense which he was indispensable to transparent some matter or other, he did so. The revelation serve bolstered a perspective of most Malaysians which Fuad was murdered.
Altantuya-Scorpene scandal
The offer to Guan Eng as well as a Pakatan group to take a dive upon a Scorpene came about 21 months ago, when a DAP personality slammed a government after it was reported which a dual Scorpene subs , costing RM7 billion, were malfunctioning.Suddenly, earlier this week as well as in and with a LIMA 2011 event during Langkawi, Zahid offered to 'prove' to Guan Eng a Scorpenes could dive.
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