Najib takes arrogance of power to a new low – Michael Xavier

November 27, 2013

Let's keep our emotions intact. Remember, history has shown ineffectual leaders eventually get hurled out of their positions. There is no possibility for injustice to prevail longer than it should.

However, sometimes with these injustices, new leaders learn what it requires to be honest and to be known as an ethical leader.

Prime Minister Najib Razak and his team has set a new benchmark for a government that is corrupt, wasteful and arrogant. They have shown a well-etched portrait of a poorly run and lackadaisical government.

When new leaders emerge, they know what not to thread on and what the people truly desire. I don't blame the people who voted for BN in the last GE13. They truly believed in Najib and they gave him his first mandate as a legitimate PM to run the show.

Unfortunately, Najib has not made good the faith the people have shown him. The same fate that befell Abdullah Badawi in 2008 will befall Najib in the 2018 election, but this time the embarrassment and spitefulness towards him are going to be on a bigger magnitude than what Abdullah experienced.

Abdullah was a good person, but an ineffective and feeble leader. Yet he was far from being arrogant. That is why he still can walk with his head held somewhat high knowing that he did not cause the nation to bleed in agony.

But with Najib, we witness the purest form of indifference, arrogance, polarisation, corruption, wastefulness and callousness being the order of the day.

When people in Sarawak are losing their native land, he prefers flying over Sarawak and reaching Sabah to witness the defection of 11 PKR leaders and assemblymen. He prefers politics over governing.

So, my dear friends, Najib has set a new "low" of what one should not do in public office. Let us record every single thing these leaders do and etch it in our hearts and share these development with our rural friends, not with spite or hatred, but with conviction, that the rakyat has the power in their hands to bring true CHANGE, a change we can all truly believe in, in GE14. - November 27, 2013.

* Michael Xavier, consultant and corporate trainer, reads The Malaysian Insider.

* This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication and does not necessarily represent the views of The Malaysian Insider