In a statement today, he claimed that the premier had failed to honour the pledge he had made to be Prime Minister for all Malaysians because "Abdullah had failed to deliver a single one of the many grand promises for which he was given the unprecedented victory of over 91 per cent of parliamentary seats in the 2004 general election."
"This is why his Hari Raya message that 'this country belongs to all of us, everyone of us' and that 'no citizen is recognised as being of a higher status than another in this motherland' felt like a damp squib," the Ipoh Timur MP said.
He also slammed Abdullah's statement that "it was saddening when racial issues which can tear apart the fabric of unity that has been woven together all this while were raised of late."
"What is even more saddening is his refusal to admit that those who raised these issues had all come from inside Umno power centres," he stated, referring to the furore created by Bukit Bendera Umno chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Ismail's "squatter" statement.
The DAP veteran said Abdullah was suffering from denial in stating that the Barisan Nasional will not fail Malaysians when it was "precisely because the BN government had failed Malaysians after the unprecedented mandate in the 2004 general election that the BN received such a thrashing in the March 8 general election" and a "second thrashing in the second political tsunami during the Permatang Pauh by-election on Aug 26."
He added that it was these failures that has resulted in a "widening and deepening of multiple crisis of confidence" which resulted in the "coup d'etat in the Umno supreme council emergency meeting on Sept 26" which has now left Abdullah with a week to decide whether to defend his party presidency in Umno's March 2009 polls.
- The Malaysian Insider
