Malacca state election on Saturday (November 14) would provide the clearest indicator whether Anthony Loke Siew Fook and Anwar Ibrahim’s latest political theater could still hoodwink voters. Chances are high that Loke’s Democratic Action Party (DAP) and Anwar’s People’s Justice Party (PKR) would suffer a similar humiliating defeat as in Sabah, Johor, and Negeri Sembilan.
Not that he wanted to, but Loke’s reluctance resignation over former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s so-called house arrest – which is actually a “mansion staycation” – is too little too late to reverse the sentiment of angry supporters. At best, Malacca non-Malay voters would stay at home tomorrow. At worst, they would vote for rival Barisan Nasional, or even the Islamist party PAS.
Hilariously, Ah Loke – suddenly found his voice after his resignation as the Transport Minister – has asked Melaka (Malacca) voters who are unhappy with Najib’s house arrest to express their views through the ballot box. The DAP secretary-general did not even have the balls to name and shame Najib’s party – UMNO – for paying RM50 million fine to get Najib released.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said something much funnier than British comedians Charlie Chaplin and Mr Bean combined. He shamelessly invoked Islamic teachings on justice, lecturing in two Facebook posts that not even “centuries of service” to the country can justify the plundering of the nation’s wealth. Like his sidekick Loke, PM Anwar was too afraid to explicitly name and shame Najib.
The political drama would have worked wonderfully, except for one huge problem – both Anwar and Loke are the government of the day. Yet, they spoke and acted as if they were in the opposition. They cried, whined, moaned, and bitched till foaming at the mouth only after the horse had bolted. They forgot, or pretend to forget, that they were the ones who freed Najib. They thought people are stupid.
Yes, it was Anwar’s girl – Dr Zaliha Mustafa – who facilitated Najib’s first royal pardon that halved the crook’s 12-year jail sentence and slashed his fine from RM210 million to RM50 million. Yes, it was Loke’s girl – Hannah Yeoh – who then facilitated Najib’s freedom disguised as house arrest. And both Zaliha and Hannah freed Najib in their respective capacity as the Federal Territories Minister under the full knowledge of Anwar and Loke.
From the beginning, it was the power-hungry Anwar Ibrahim who chose to dance to the tune of UMNO. He single-handedly opened the floodgates of his own demise by reviving the Federal Territories portfolio during a Cabinet reshuffle in December 2023 just so that Dr Zaliha Mustafa could be appointed – a compulsory member of the Pardons Board to facilitate Najib’s royal pardon.
Likewise, it was the same power-crazy Anthony Loke, and all the DAP top leaders for that matter, who chose to keep silent in agreement when Federal Territories Minister Zaliha, who was a member of the Pardons Board, signed on the partial royal pardon for Najib in 2024. DAP under Loke’s leadership could protest back then, but didn’t. Hannah could resign in protest this year, but she too didn’t. Clearly, they chose power over principle.
If Anwar was serious about fighting corruption, and was disgusted with corrupt leaders like Najib as he would like people to believe, he would not have crossed all the red lines in dropping UMNO president Zahid Hamidi’s 47 corruption charges, let alone bringing back the Federal Territories portfolio just to free Najib in exchange for UMNO’s support to keep him in power.
In fact, the Prime Minister proudly admitted to personally bringing Najib’s pardon application to the Pardons Board in 2023. With public anger boiling, the con artist now claims that he did it for the welfare of every prisoner’s constitutional right. Yet, only Najib gets the exclusive right to live with his immediate family members at his residence in Jalan Langgak Duta, Kuala Lumpur, while serving the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.
Therefore, it’s not entirely the Monarchs’ fault – both Sultan Abdullah and Sultan Ibrahim – that crooked Najib was laughing all the way to his luxury mansion. It was Anwar Ibrahim who shamelessly defended the stunning move to reduce the jail sentence for disgraced Najib Razak in February 2024 – justifying it as “a matter of compassion”. And now he has the cheek to shed crocodile tears.
Worse, the despicable PM also admitted to submitting Najib’s application for a royal pardon without doing so under pressure from UMNO. Meaning he did it voluntarily, happily, willingly, and without duress. Heck, he had even slammed critics disagreed with Najib’s royal pardon as people without “mercy and compassion” – suggesting he was the only compassionate man like a Prophet.
Crucially, why should voters who previously voted for PKR and DAP continue to support Anwar and Loke if their votes translate to freeing Najib? Even with 40 MPs, the largest bloc in the Pakatan Harapan coalition, spineless Loke was nothing but Anwar’s lapdog for the past four years – till being forced to resign now to hoodwink Chinese voters that he is a man with principle.
Najib’s move from Kajang Prison to his home in Kuala Lumpur’s upmarket Taman Duta neighbourhood – which happened in the heat of campaigning for Melaka’s state election – has put both Anwar and Loke in a difficult situation. By hook or by crook, they have to divert the blame to everyone else other than themselves. Both leaders hope their crocodile tears could cleanse what they did – or didn’t do – in the last four years.
Loke’s resignation in protest, despite insisting that he was respecting the King’s authority to bulldoze Najib’s house arrest, followed with calls to voters to reject UMNO over Najib’s victory, whilst blowing his own trumpet of being the most principled man on the blue planet is full of contradiction, discrepancy, inconsistency, hypocrisy, confusion, lies, and whatnot.
Even till today, Anwar says he has yet to accept Loke’s resignation – indicating there could be more U-turns in the despicable and shameful political theater staged by both leaders just to cling to power. Regardless, Najib’s conditional pardon has reinforced concerns over whether politically influential individuals are treated differently from ordinary Malaysians.
Thanks to Anwar, Najib is believed to be the first high-profile convicted prisoner in Malaysia to have a prison sentence commuted to house arrest through a conditional royal pardon. However, the Prime Minister cannot explain confidently and satisfactorily to the question why Najib’s case appeared to have received priority over those of other prisoners seeking clemency.
While Anwar and Ah Loke could not prove that they had played zero roles in freeing Najib, here’s the obvious proof that the government is protecting Najib – the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) is blocking the Bar’s legal bid against Najib Razak’s house arrest. PKR and DAP could try to distance themselves from Najib’s pardon for all they want, but the writing is on the wall.
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November 13th, 2026 by financetwitter
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