SHALL we then blame it on Mohammad Agus Yusoff, Nurul Izzah, Azalina Othman Said, Fahmi Fadzil or the slew of other teams handling the PM's and the Government's communication?
THE answer is a hell no, as the buck stops with Anwar Ibrahim, because he has not moved in as an APEX predator to take the ground. READ ; Long Before, the six state elections, I had stated people will most likely vote for the party of choice of a business leader whom they do not like who is already invested in the community rather than for a business owner they like, who only plans to invest in the community
THE end results, were there to be seen, in the states which Syed Mokthar Al Bukhary , the sole owner of Bernas is the single largest employer (specifically in Kedah, Trengganu and Kelantan), which saw the Unity Government got clobbered without putting up a good fight.
THAT should not come as a surprise, considering 76 days, and that too against the written wish of paddy farmers that Bernas should be abolished, Muhyiddin Yassin approved a 10 year concession for Bernas and , what did Syed Mokthar do in turn?
WHY give away RM195 million without any KPI set for the recipient, unless this donation had sinister intentions?
THIS is where the Anwar Ibrahim apologist would say, that one should understand that taking out Syed Mokthar's Bernas, the only Malay in the top 15 rich list would have backfired big time.
TO that, I can only state, go do the maths. There are 51, 000 Malay paddy farmers in Kedah, and when you take into account their immediate family and only close extended family, they make up about one third of the vote bank in Kedah.
IF it had been put solely on their heads that their votes will determine if Bernas head will be chopped off or not , since they are the ones most directly affected by the presence of Bernas, one can only speculate now if 51,000 paddy farmers and their families would rather have their heads chopped off.
ANWAR Ibrahim didn't take the risk, that every fighting general cannot run from, but now when the same opportunity is provided to Perikatan Nasional's top war general, the man who must have feared the most that if Anwar Ibrahim had used the Bernas card forcefully, Kedah would have fallen, guess what he did?
MEET Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor, the Kedah Menteri Besar, the war dog of PAS, a General who fights on the ground and not from an air conditioned room. VIEW: Sanusi Md Nor Teaches Anwar Ibrahim How To Fight A Street War, by urging voters that the mis management in the rice sector is reason enough not to vote for the Unity Government in today's by elections