Umno's gushing drivel

• COMMENT Umno's descent to drivel in the battles against their looming ouster reflects their desperation and fear of Pakatan Rakyat, and especially Anwar Ibrahim.MORE

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In this article, the writer pointed out that Muhyiddin had explained in September 1998, that he had visited the just-sacked and about-to-be-disgraced Deputy Prime Minister and Umno deputy president because he did not believe in being only a fair-weather friend of Anwar.

Consequently, a few years laters, the chance for Muhyiddin to be the DPM under Abdullah's was snuffed out by the just-retired Dr Mahathir Mohamed who pushed for Najib in preference to Muhyiddin, suspected in Mahathir's eyes of latent ties to Anwar.