(MySinchew) - The troubled Umno leadership has come under flak again from none other than Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, one of its veteran leaders. "Under its present leadership, is probably beyond reform," the Gua Musang MP wrote in his blog www.Razaleigh.com Friday (13 Feb).
"Our leaders are the problem, and they have structured the party, bullied and bought it, so that they cannot be replaced by those who would lead to serve," he said.
"Contrast the breadth of vision we had fifty years ago, and our method of naming and solving our problems then, even in the face of serious threats to our security, with how we conduct ourselves now, having surrounded ourselves with self-made threats while real challenges such as education and the economy go begging," he pointed out.
Ku Li, as he is popularly known, took a swipe at Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak, the party's number two man by saying,"
Umno's most recent achievement has been to wrest power by underhanded means from a democratically-elected state government. In doing so we came across as the party of the desperate, not the confident.
Najib takes credit for masterminding defections from the Pakatan Rakyat in Perak which led to a hung state assembly. In a highly controversial move, he went straight to the Istana and asked Sultan Azlan Shah to handover the government to Barisan by appointing a new Mentri Besar. The move is now being challenged in court.
"Contrast the broad field we ranged over, with the narrow stage we now strut before a shrinking audience," he said.
However, on a more optimistic note he said," But no other party can do what Umno once did, and must do again.""Umno is a party with great deeds to its name."
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