Syed Saddiq’s sentencing is just too convenient
Eliminate your enemy by any means (Malay Machiavellian playbook)
With the attack on Bersatu underway, the sentencing of Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman became a side-show. Seven years jail, RM 10 million fine, and 2 strokes of the rotan just to humiliate, Syed Saddiq and MUDA have been done away with.
Although Syed Saddiq was found guilty in the Kuala Lumpur High Court on four charges of Criminal Breach of Trust (CBT), misappropriation of property, and money laundering of RM 1.2 million from the Bersatu Youth funds, many believed the sentence was too excessive for the crimes.
This sentence potentially takes out Syed Saddiq as a politician for more than a decade, and nips MUDA in the bud, before it can grow.
This is very convenient for Pakatan Harapan, which doesn’t want any mosquito parties around. Dr Jayakumar, the head of PSM was arrested just a week ago, over the Kanthan farmer evictions.
Many within Pakatan hope Syed Saddiq’s sentence will be a death-blow to MUDA.
Syed Saddiq immediately stepped down as MUDA president and handed the reins over to current deputy president Amira Aisya Abd Aziz. Amira is a member of the Johor State Assembly, so MUDA is not without any parliamentary representation. Amira was a co-founder of MUDA and has her own distinct ideas about how MUDA should proceed.
Its time for the people to see MUDA was not just a one man band
Its now up to Amira to take MUDA in a completely new direction. MUDA may become much less personality based, to focus more on the issues facing the youth of Malaysia.
Amira has the future of MUDA in her hands. The establishment certainly don’t want her to succeed.
Syed Saddiq’s sentencing could lead to the destruction of MUDA as some pundits say. However, Syed Saddiq’s absence could assist on allowing the MUDA message to get out clearer than it has in the past.
Only time will tell.
In the meantime, we can remember Syed Saddiq with his guest appearance in Namewee’s song Katak.
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Syed Saddiq upset two former PMs. He rebuffed Muhyiddin. He rejected Dr Mahathir’s Pejuang party.
He questioned Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s DNAA last September and withdrew his support for Anwar Ibrahim’s coalition government.
In a way, Saddiq is having a Niemoller moment: "First, they came for the Socialist, and I was silent..." If he were honest, given his claimed innocence, he would categorically state that he did not respect the verdict of the High Court judge, hence his appeal to the COA. At the PC, he was pulling teeth because he was silent on the alleged conflict of interest of Najib's SRC judge, who jailed him, and the COA and FC that affirmed the judgment.