THE five states are Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Penang for the unity government and Kelantan and Trengganu for PAS.
READ : BERSATU : We can't do it in Selangor or Negeri Sembilan Unless 20 per cent of non Malays vote for us.
THE real fight will be in Kedah, and Tun Mahathir cannot afford to be seen as being rejected by his home state twice in a span of less than a year, having lost his deposit in Langkawi during GE15.
TUN, staying out means there will be no billions from his side or from Daim Zainuddin's side to feast on by PAS who have grown accustomed to staying rich with other people's money.
KHAIRY Jamaluddin will stay out completely by not being a candidate in the coming state elections, now that the numbers clearly point to the next menter besar of Selangor and Negeri Sembilan coming from the unity Government's side.
ANWAR Ibrahim's from his own experience decades ago, knows how DRB HiCOM Bhd , the single largest employer in Kedah, Pahang, Terengganu dan Kelantan had helped him out without even giving him a single ringgit.
TO take Kedah, the Prime Minister, has to make sure, the conglomerate now under Syed Mokthar does not do the same for BERSATU and PAS.
SO how did DRB HICOM help Anwar Ibrahim decades ago without giviing him a single ringgit? They gave him access to their assets such as halls, tents, trucks, fuel and people on the ground, who knows the ground by virtue of them being part of the ground.
THERE is now only one men left standing in the way of a successful take down of Perikatan Nasional in Kedah. His name is not Mahathir, nor Daim but its that tall lanky chap who walks with slippers, the one known in Kedah as TSM
