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By Mihar Dias (C) Copyright November 2022
The fate of BN's poster boy Ismail Sabri will always be remembered as a subject of widespread speculation throughout this GE15 campaign.
While there is nothing really definite about his position as PM10, Hannah Yeoh has already made up her mind that "The poster boy CANNOT lead Malaysia" in a video clip that is now shared over social media.
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Describing Ismail Sabri as a powerless poster boy, Hannah Yeoh concluded that Caretaker PM does not have the ability to lead the country when Malaysia is facing challenges like climate change, economic downturn, and decreasing job opportunities.
Hannah also said that Ismail Sabri is not the ideal candidate to fight for the rakyat "when he can't even fight for his own ministers" who were dropped by UMNO recently.
Why couldn't Ismail do anything right by Hannah Yeoh's yardstick?
The answer is, as Hannah puts it, the poster boy "does not think 10 steps ahead", said Hannah Yeoh.
Why do you think a trained University of Malaya Law School graduate and a former practising lawyer is unable to think that far ahead?
To answer that question, let me take you back to 1894 when George du Maurier first wrote a novel entitled Trilby.
Briefly, in Trilby a young model named Trilby O'Ferrall falls under the spell of a certain manipulator called Svengali.
Svengali is a villainous musician who trains Trilby's voice through hypnosis. He succeeded in transforming her into a singing star but ended completely subjugating her by seducing and exploiting her in the process.
The evil and mischievous ability of Svengali to persuadeTrilby has been used generically to describe any wicked and manipulative person.
We do not know whether the President of UMNO Zahid Hamidi has any hypnotic powers but he probably has some forms of magical ability to control minds by looking at his successes in convincing UMNO members to support him in many unpopular decisions to date.
We cannot rightfully label Zahid as a Svengali but he seems to have the power to subjugate and manipulate Ismail Sabri Yaakob, the caretaker PM into doing his bidding, for example dissolving Parliament, holding a GE15 in the monsoon and overruling him over the latter's choice of candidates for the election.
But we suspect that Zahid with his manipulative skills next to none in UMNO would be pulling on the strings, as a Puppet Master on Ismail Sabri, the Marionette, if the latter was appointed as the 10th Prime Minister of the country.
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