Zaid Ibrahim told to step down
September 22, 2011
Zaid Ibrahim told to step down
By Sira Habibu
sira@thestar.com.my
Youth members of KITA are initiating a move to topple Party President Datuk Zaid Ibrahim. Central executive committee member Mohd Zahrein Zakariah said the young should take the lead to remove authoritarian leaders like Zaid.
“We are calling for an extraordinary general meeting for Zaid to step down as we have lost confidence in his leadership.I feel compelled to strongly oppose Zaid’s recent unilateral action to sack certain office bearers,” he said.
There has been growing discontent among leaders and grassroots in KITA over the controversial removal of Party Central Secretary Abdul Latif Thambi, Treasurer Rashid Azad Khan and the suspension of central executive member Muhammad Firdaus Christopher.
Zahrein said Zaid was the one who should be sacked for going against the party constitution.Federal Territory Kita co-ordinator Dr Rajaratnam Gopal Pillai said the internal grievances must be addressed to check the possible collapse of the party.
“The party could implode from within if the leadership continues to disregard the views of key 
and central committee members,” he said.
In an open letter to Zaid, Dr Rajaratnam said developments over the past month had cast a dark shadow over the party’s future.
Other party leaders who had voiced their dissatisfaction include Penang KITA chief and Nibong Tebal MP Tan Tee Beng, Negri Sembilan chief R. Sri Sanjeevan, Malacca chief Kol (R) Hashim Putih, and Malacca secretary Yayah Deris.
Tan said Zaid had always been critical of the leadership style of PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. “But now he (Zaid) is no different from Anwar.”
Kol Hashim said it was only proper to issue show cause letters first so the affected members could explain why action should not be taken against them.Yayah said disciplinary action should not be based on personal interest.
Sanjeevan said internal conflict would erode public confidence in the fledgling party. “We are still a mosquito party, we cannot afford such conflict,” he said.
Acting central secretary Masrum Dayat claimed that Zahrein was not a central executive council member. Masrum also added that the central executive meeting could only be called if the central executive committee decide to call for it, or if 51% of the party’s 3,000 registered members provide a written request.
Kita: Ketuanya kehulu, ahli-ahlinya ke hilir — Aspan Alias
24 SEPT — Parti Kita sedang menghadapi masalah dan krisis yang agak besar tetapi parti ini merupakan parti yang masih kecil dan belum lagi mempunyai apa-apa “consequence” kepada politik negara kita. Kita adalah parti lama yang diperbaharui namanya dan ianya diketuai oleh Zaid Ibrahim yang kita semua kenal.
Saya dijemput untuk menghadziri majlis pelancarannya di Sime Darby Convention Center tahun lepas dalam satu upacara yang agak gemilang dan “impressive” penampilannya. Parti yang bernama baru itu baru setahun jagung umurnya dan masyarakat belum lagi melihat parti ini sebagai parti yang mendapat perhatian rakyat. Parti ini hanya dikenali sebagai parti yang sinonim dengan Presidennya yang terkenal itu, Zaid Ibrahim.
Saya adalah orang yang agak “familiar” dengan wajah-wajah dan individu dalam parti ini termasuklah Presidennya sendiri Zaid Ibrahim yang saya kenali sejak 40 tahun dahulu. Dari awal lagi saya melihat Kita adalah parti yang seolah-olah kepunyaan Zaid Ibrahim sendiri dan telahan saya yang parti ini akan menghadapi masalah sekarang menjadi kenyataan.
Saya sudah mengagak yang Kita akan hanya menjadi parti Zaid Ibrahim dan perlembagaannya adalah perlembagaan Zaid Ibrahim dan cara mentadbirnya adalah cara Zaid Ibrahim. Saya pernah bertanya kepada salah seorang yang rapat dengan saya baru-baru ini sebelum berlakunya perbalahan di dalam parti ini samada Kita telah mengadakan mesyuarat Majlis Tertinggi atau apa-apa nama yang diberikan kepada barisan pimpinan parti itu.
Saya diberitahu TIDAK ADA. Dengan jawapan itu saya sudah mengagak yang parti ini belum lagi dikendalikan secara sebuah parti yang dipunyai ahli-ahlinya. Parti ini hanya bergerak mengikut kemahuan dan kehendak Presidennya sahaja iaitu Zaid Ibrahim.
Tetapi kita lupakan isu Kita tidak berfungsi sebagaimana yang dikehendaki oleh sebuah parti, tetapi yang lebih penting lagi Presiden dan ahli-ahlinya tidak sehaluan dalam pandangan dan arah tuju politik masing-masing.
Kita dianggotai oleh ahli yang tidak sebulu dengan parti-parti pemerintah. Ramai di antara mereka adalah bekas ahli PKR yang menyokong Zaid Ibrahim dan sekarang mempunyai ahli seramai 600 orang dan bukannya sebagaimana yang diberitakan seramai 3,000 orang oleh pejabat Kita.
Tetapi perkembangan terakhir kini Presidennya telah bermain politik apologetic terhadap BN malahan Zaid telah memohon maaf daripada Najib kerana kononnya beliau tersilap anggapan yang Najib tidak akan berani memansuhkan ISA. Pemansuhan ISA merupakan alasan yang “expedient” bagi Zaid untuk kembali rujuk terhadap kepimpinan kerajaan yang pernah beliau sertai dan ditinggalkannya dahulu.
Zaid mempunyai hak untuk mengalih dan menganjak pendirian beliau tetapi beliau tidak boleh lupa yang parti pimpinannya ada ahli-ahli dan beliau tidak pernah merujuk dan bertanya kepada ahli-ahli partinya sebelum mengalih dan menganjak pendirian dan pandangan beliau maka sekali lagi Zaid meninggalkan orang-orang yang menyokongnya dan pandangan rakan-rakan beliau sendiri percaya yang Zaid hanya main politik peribadi yang menebal.
Sekarang saya hampir percaya seperti apa yang diadukan oleh beberapa ahli senior parti itu yang beliau menganggap yang Kita itu adalah parti peribadi beliau dan betullah cerita yang saya dengar beliau pernah berkata kepada pemimpin-pemimpin parti itu, “This is my party, you do the way I ask you to do”.
Kalau benar kata-kata ini terluah dari mulut Zaid, maka kita boleh nilailah Zaid ini samada beliau ada semangat “teamwork” yang sangat diperlukan oleh parti politik lebih-lebih lagi parti yang begitu kerdil dalam politik negara ini.
Usaha ramai di antara ahli-ahli parti ini untuk mendesak beliau meletakan jawatan itu adalah isu yang tidak memeranjatkan sesiapa lagi. Bagi saya Zaid tidak mempunyai “future” lagi dalam politik kecuali orang yang melobi untuk beliau (Zaid) kembali menyertai Kabinet itu berjaya melakukannya. — aspanaliasnet.blogspot.com
Zaid, like I said before can only work alone, he cannot work with other people. Just look at what happened to him in UMNO and later PKR.
Hussaini Abdul Karim (@hak55) - September 22, 2011 at 1:39 pm
All the good vintage must have dulled ZAID’s senses. He should empty all the remaining bottles in his pool and try drowning in it. Fade away KITA as you can only be a spoiler at the next GE !!
ryan - September 22, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Could he just be an umno turncoat, sent out to destroy all other parties opposing bn. From the way he flip frog from the original to PR, then KITA, make me wonder what is his intention.
Concerned citizen - September 22, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Zaid is becoming a regular Party Hopper.
he is too uptight to be a team worker. he’ll never be able to contribute anything worthwhile to malaysia.
please go back to umno/bn (if they accept you) and wreak havoc there – we’ll help you if you want!
reeperbahn - September 22, 2011 at 3:40 pm
The ink has hardly dried and already this party is in the midst of an internal power struggle? I dread the thought what could happen in the unlikely event that it gets to unseat the incumbent government.
Mr Bean - September 22, 2011 at 6:24 pm
MR.BEAN : Your dread should be our dread too… at what might happen if the current PR gets to unseat the government. That is why I have been saying all along that PR should be limited to state governments for the time being until the country has had an opportunity to see for themselves what they are made of.
Isa Manteqi - September 22, 2011 at 11:17 pm
That is why I have been saying all along that PR should be limited to state governments for the time being until the country has had an opportunity to see for themselves what they are made of.- Isa Manteqi
That is like wishing a woman to be half-pregnant.
Not a clever idea. When you are in Opposition, you go for the top prize.
As the National Laureate Pak Samad said wisely,
“I am not saying Pakatan is a good guy. But if you don’t let them try, you will NEVER know”.
That is what I call wisdom with age, yet fearless.
Some younger people simply don’t have the guts to take calculated risks and face challenges of change.
After all, the power to change govt still lies in the hands of the voters,,, you can kick out the Pakatan after 5 years.
Unlike the UMNO-BN government, you can’t kick them out easily because of all the frauds and cheating… such as:
a) phantom voters
b) cheating of postal votes of military personnel and their spouses
c) fake myKads
d) citizenships and permanent residents to illegal immigrants
e) dirty electoral database
f)downright bias of the EC… acting like an arm of UMNO-BN
g) Public servants made to be UMNO-BN operatives eg Immigration Office and all the Ministries government officers.
Isa Manteqi, your suggestion, tell that to the Egyptian youths and the Libyan youths who put their lives in harm’s way for a course, while here, we are just asking our voters to cross the street to the polling booth to vote for the opposition.
you got to see the big picture and that is, the best way to clean up the nation’s political landscape to clean the slate… remove this corrupt, crony-driven UMNO-BN govt. As though, 50 years of abuse are not enough. You are teaching our youths to be COWARDS.
Frank - September 22, 2011 at 11:37 pm
CORRECTION
Isa Manteqi,as to your suggestion, tell that to the Egyptian youths and the Libyan youths who put their lives in harm’s way for a CAUSE, while here, we are just asking our voters to cross the street to the polling booth to vote for the opposition
Frank - September 22, 2011 at 11:38 pm
I do not believe that will happen.
But Malaysia is not United States. The latter is a true federation and Malaysia is not. States in Malaysia cannot survive as they depend on the federal government for revenue to finance both their operating and capital expenditure. States in Malaysia have no independent significant sources of revenue like state income tax. Imagine a company unable to pay its own employees.
Opposition control of the states may be limited to Penang and Selangor for obvious reasons. Over time UMNO-controlled Putrajaya will work to ensure fund-starved states in Opposition control will not have their share of development capital and economic development in these states would then sputter, stall and come to a screeching halt.
We have seen how opposition controlled constituencies over the years have been neglected to punish the constituents for voting for the opposition.
Mr Bean - September 22, 2011 at 11:53 pm
What will happen though is, in the short run, a state or two may just fall in opposition hands. But it is an aberration and cannot continue. Finally whichever party is in control of Putrajaya will rule the entire country. The states will have to fall in line.
Mr Bean - September 22, 2011 at 11:59 pm