A Note to Tun Mahathir

Tun,

In the wake of your resignation from Umno, there are many speculations and theories as to what prompted your decision to quit Umno. However being Umno’s and the country’s once nomuro uno, your action can lead Umno and the Malays into further factions and may just back fire in your desire to resurrect the fledgling credibility of the present Umno’s leadership.

Tun,

You have been the biggest leader seen by this country. Your contribution has been immense and beyond expectation. We are indebted to you for leading the country from the 80’s into the millennium transcending economic barriers and political upheavals. You have carried the country through numerous crisis and has always came out tops, thus saving Malays, Umno and Malaysia from catastrophes. We are proud to be Malaysian and were having the best time of our lives during your leadership. You deserve to be in the all-time "Malaysian Hall of Fame" and be remembered for all the excellent things that you have achieved for yourself and the country. We were all glad when you retired for here is a gentleman, a leader, a statesman who has fulfilled his life to the fullest and deservedly retire to spend quality time with the loved ones that he has sorely missed when he was in office.

So why are you doing this Tun? Resignation from Umno will not solve the Malay crisis overnight. I have pondered and can’t rationalize what made you do it??

When you handed the baton to Pak Lah (AAB), many people (in fact it’s the majority’s opinion) were concerns because we didn’t see him as the first choice candidate to succeed you. However we thought through it and concluded that there were always smooth transition of powers in Malaysian politics and somehow the outgoing PM had what it takes in them to analyze the candidate’s capabilities and to successfully handed over the baton to their successors. It was the case from TgAR to TAR, TAR to THO, THO to You. Alas we thought leave it to Dr M, coz he knew what he was doing. He was closer to the politicians and knew them well for him to make his choice. So why Tun are you now creating all this issues to get back at somebody you put into PM’s office and in the process is threatening the political stability of the Malays??


You have to isolate the issue of Umno and AAB. Yes! its connected but still it’s a separate issue. Maybe it escaped you but the leadership of Umno has always been continuously challenged before, what with Umno-46, Tg Razaleigh, Musa Hitam and all. Umno and Malays today are facing similar challenges to that when it was under your leadership. Not all Malays are supporters of Umno, same when Tun was leading Umno then. Therefore what is new? What is it this time that require us to react differently? Umno/ BN may have lost ground in the last election but it was much due to MIC and MCA as well. Therefore that being the case, Umno being status quo its must be something to do with the leadership of Umno. But then the leadership of the present Umno was handed over by Tun !! So does that means that Tun will have to interfere to make good the short-coming?? What will it cost to rectify the mistake?? Will a permanent Malay disunity pay for this mistake??


AAB is not the greatest leader but if that is what we have then that’s what we have!! until democracy remove him from office or another great leader turns up in Umno to lead this country to another height. What good are we for condemning each other over an issue that we cant resolve democratically??


The Malays are weak because we are not united. You remove the word united from Umno and it reads Mno. ( In Negri slang “mano?” or “di-mana?” or “where?”) People don’t even know we exist….and Tun what you did is contrary to being “united” and again we don’t understand your action in destabilizing the already weakened Umno and the Malays. Therefore in the show of the highest order in you Tun, you have actually shown the world the disunity amongst Malays. We are sorry but that’s how we see it……


We are all sad at this turns of event and sincerely hope that you will not further aggravate the situation that is already bad as it is. We still need your leadership Tun but please see the issues from the perspective of others. Others that are not great leader like you or politician like you or veteran Umno members like you…others as in farmers, teachers, workers, professionals, children etc etc, i.e Malays that have elected our leaders through a democratic election process to be our voices in parliament and the government. We have exercised our rights in all the elections and the recent election and we deserve the right to be represented and our voices heard through the democratic windows.



We wish you the best and we hope that you will think the issues over and react wisely!!!



regards



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