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COMMENT | So today, the leader of Sabah Bersatu, Hajiji Mohd Noor, is being sworn in as the head of the new state government. Congratulations sir.
The candidacy of his rival, the head of Sabah Umno, Bung Moktar Radin, has ended. In a word, Bung-kus.
The people of Sabah have spoken, and I suppose they think leaders like Bung and Star Chairman Jeffrey Kitingan, two of the most ridiculed MPs in the Dewan Rakyat for their rude manners and party style respectively, are a form of restore dignity that has long been in the wind. Or rather under it.
Perhaps the less that can be said about the voters who would elect such individuals, the better: Bung himself held a press conference on election night, Saturday, flanked by the commander-in-thief who is a convicted felon from Pekan.
The lack of progress in underdeveloped states like Sabah and Kelantan is nothing new. So it should come as no surprise that voters have learned to revel in this backwardness and embrace racial and religious chauvinism embroiled in ties of corruption and hypocrisy.
It also doesn’t help that leaders on the other side (at least at the national level) are increasingly disconnected.
Let’s be honest, senile is the word …
