To Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was a political master. He could compete with political fighter Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
After Umno's internal struggle between Team A and Team B, the party was found unlawful. Mahathir formed the new Umno and excluded members from Team B, included the party's elder statesmen Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Hussein Onn.
Raja Petra as well revealed an inside story that the then party elder statesmen registered the party with the name “Malaysia Umno” and Dr Mahathir registered as “Umno Baru” three days after he got to know about it. Later, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah's camp was informed that the name was not approved as someone else were using the same name.
“Razaleigh had no choice but to form Semangat 46. However, Abdullah who was in Team B did not follow. Eventually, Abdullah returned to Umno,” he added.
Raja Petra said if Abdullah joined 46 Semangat at that time, he would not have today's achievements. (Guang Ming Daily)
source: My sinChew
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