The issue that should dominate Umno Youth, Umno Wanita and Umno Puteri assemblies should have been the 1 MDB issue.
This is one issue which has become a global issue and the key person alleged to be involved in this issue is none other than the UMNO president cum Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak.
Yet in the eloquent speeches of the three wings’ chiefs and the fierce debates of the delegates, 1 MDB was like a trivial or even a non issue.
This shows how seriously UMNO wings have lost their political direction and their sense of right and wrong.
In their eagerness to give blind support to their President Najib, they have chosen to continue to deceive themselves as if 1MDB is not an issue at all.
In going into their “war mode”, there have to be targets for the three wings. And it is not a surprise that former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir and DAP have become the main targets.
However, what surprised Malaysians is the laughable comments made in the attacks launched against Tun Mahathir and DAP by Wanita chief Datuk Seri Sharizat.
“The most saddening part for me is when our former leader started working with the opposition,” she hadsaid during her speech at the Wanita Umno wing assembly without mentioning Dr Mahathir by name.
“The day I saw them ‘kissing’ with Lim Kit Siang is the darkest day in my life; I was ashamed, a leader whom we loved and celebrated for 22 years through all ups and downs.
Let me remind the “mudah lupa” Sharizat that the darkest day of her life was when the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) scandal involving her family was unearthed and which finally resulted in her resignation as a Minister in 2012.
Has she forgotten what the former Wanita Umno deputy chief Kamilia Ibrahim once said?
Kamilia when commenting on the cowgate scandal had said: – “People are poking fun at Wanita and calling us cows. The Wanita grassroots are complaining that it’s difficult to work with the issue over their heads”.
I do not have to defend Mahathir in my statement as he is capable of defending himself. But Sharizat should know that the darkest day of her life should be when people were poking fun at Wanita and calling them cows.
Sharizat has to remember the shame the NFC scandal brought to Umno Wanita to the extent that the Wanita members could not lift their heads high due to her family’s scandal.