Today, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nazri Aziz, who was inherited from former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s old cupboard, came out to the defence of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, in a way you-like-it-or-not, remain elegantly silent.

"Be a jantan, leave UMNO", he said.

Via Malaysiakini:

Are you saying that Umno will not sack Tun but is inviting him to leave the party himself?

We don’t even talk about sacking him, he is the one who picks this idea from the air. Dia makan chili rasa pedas. He knows this is a big sin. If he wants to leave, then leave, I don’t think Umno members will cry and ask him to stay, because now he is already behaving like that, so better be opposition and fight us openly. But I disagree on sacking him because we are now more democratic than him.

What about the senior minister offer?

We talked about it in the cabinet because some ministers felt that we still need him to be around, but he said he don’t want it.

I think he has done so much damages to us. I don’t think he loves Umno, I don’t think he loves the country. He went back on all his words.

I was shocked how he could share a platform with those who try to destroy Umno. I saw the picture (of Mahathir) with (PAS leaders) Husam Musa, Nasharuddin Mat Isa, Kamaruddin Jaffar and Mahfuz Omar - those who called him ‘firaun’ (pharaoh) previously. He sat in one group with them. He has stooped so low to be with those people who called him firaun. He had said that Malays easily forget, but who is forgetting now? Malays or him? […]

Calling upon Mahathir to act like a jantan? Calling Mahathir to sack himself out of UMNO? Calling Mahathir cheapskate by stooping so slow to be with PAS leaders?

The one that should have spoken remain elegantly silent, while the small fry that shouldn’t have responded, put his head into the mud and burned the bridge behind him.

Gung ho? He didn’t realise he just helps to puch the dagger by one inch deeper.

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