This is an entry about jealousy, a conspiracy of jealousy as alleged by the Penang’s Deputy Chief Minister I Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin.
In the end of the day, I leave it to your own conscience to rate this guy, in which his performance has been criticized from both the internal and external circles.
Interestingly, when he was asked about his performance as well as rumors about his possible replacement, most of the time he will thrust himself into a very defensive style, alleging that some quarters are jealous of his quick rise in the political arena, hence the allegation in first place.
Prior to this, his performance was openly criticized by his party boss Anwar Ibrahim who reminded him to buck up in his capacity as the DCM and Penanti assemblyman.
Lately rumors are rife that Fairus had fallen out with Anwar and intended to resign his government post and the Penang CM Lim Guan Eng is going to announce a state exco reshuffle, with Fairus set to be replaced.
Now, let’s look at the multiple time-line where he never cease to boost his "quick rise" while condemning the rest for being jealous of his achievement.
Fairus warned his adversaries, whom he claimed are jealous of his quick political rise, that they were miscalculating if they thought he is lembik (soft) person.
Fairus instead blamed Umno members for making the allegations.
He said: "I believe the allegations were created by Umno members who are jealous of me as I am the youngest deputy chief minister in Penang history."
Deputy Chief Minister I Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin has lashed out at certain quarters who he said were jealous of him and were after his position.
"Since day one of my appointment, certain quarters have been trying to pull me down. I am the youngest DCM in the history of Malaysian politics so of course there is jealousy."
“Being the youngest Deputy Chief Minister in history, there is bound to be envy and jealousy from all quarters."
In all cases highlighted above, jealousy continues to pop up from his mouth, which is a bit irritating to a certain extent.
I’d strongly recommend him to shut up, stops the finger pointing game, forgets about any political ploy and starts to work double hard to salvage his reputation.
After all, I for one is neither feeling jealous nor envy towards his little achievement, if there is any. In politics, perception is the key and sorry to say, it’s about everything that matters as far as politics is concern.
Not only you must do the right thing, you must be seen as doing the right too.
It needs to be both, not one or another.
That’s the reality.
If Fairus is not up to the challenge, it’s conducive for him to cut short his political career (no matter how young and how successful he is as claim), dismissing himself from the lineup and don’t stand in the way of other high calibre candidate to assist Guan Eng to propel the state and the people to greater heights.
That’s my advice to you, Mr. Jealous before you’re fired by Donald Trump like yet-another apprentice.
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A defensive minister will never be as efficient and effective as he should be. In this case, is he fighting his shadows?
I use to know this guy and he is very shady….the media (also his blog) kept on repeating that this guy’s credentials include two Master’s degree including one from UK….try and check whether this is valid. Creative embellishment is one of his specialty….