YOURSAY 'He has destroyed the work of many and disappointed many more.'

Farewell Khalid, it's been a good show

Jaguh: Outgoing Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim is touted as the best MB Selangor has ever had, because the previous ones were rubbish.

However, he is also responsible for deeds which are not transparent to his party and the public. Moreover he caused this unnecessary fracas in Selangor and may lead to the breakup of Pakatan Rakyat as a whole.

For that he is indeed a man to be remembered.

Pputeh: Good show, my foot. He was a loner. He never wanted to follow the party line and did as he liked.

He forgot the people and us seniors. He could have easily given out cash aid to the poor and the seniors in the state. But he didn't, he preferred to hoard it. For whom?

Go and I will not wish you the best.

Lionheart: He indeed is a selfish man, directing effort in areas of his interest. That's why he seldom attended party's meetings, because he didn't want to be answerable and questioned.

He is happy now because he got the last laugh and got away with what he wanted. He has destroyed the work of many and disappointed many more. I could do a better job than he by sleeping on the job.

With the money collected from assessments and quit rent, just dump them into fixed deposits and they grow exponentially. Am I not a great administrator?

Caesar: What good show? He should have been grateful to his party to have made him the MB of Selangor, which he wouldn't even have dreamt of. He created a bloody mess by not following his party's instructions.

He could have resigned gracefully and could have still continued with party work as an adviser. Now nobody respects or will bother with him.

Saintonthego: A leader cannot run an organisation or a state by himself. Only a tyrant does that.

First of all, he was put there by the people who trusted him. By himself he was just a retired person. Perhaps he was a great but selfish administrator who only thought of himself first and the party last.

Sad that PKR has to go through this patch of problems created by him out of selfishness.

Malaccan : Khalid's legacy was to bring improvements to the state's administration, but he also brought along disorder to the state's rule and reformation.

Khalid's stubbornness drew the palace and allies into the fracas and put the balance of power and governance into disarray.

Baiyuensheng: He may be the best MB thus far that Selangor has, but he was not a loyal member of Pakatan. In parliamentary politics, do you vote for the individual or the party that sets the vision and direction?

The thing is if everyone thinks that they are indispensable, then the whole party would collapse. A person then can set their own agenda.

Master Sun: When I resign from my company I give 30 days’ notice, and during this 30 days I train the new person who is going to take over my job and I would never make any decision on behalf of the company.

As for Khalid, before he resigned, he signed a RM3 billion contract with the federal government and now that the mission is accomplished, he can run away.

ConstitutionIsSupreme: The only legacy left behind by Khalid in my opinion is his intense effort to destabilise PKR, and therefore Pakatan by working hand-in-glove with PAS and Umno; as a result he brings risk and danger to the proper functioning of the parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy systems in Malaysia.

RZC: All his deeds are overshadowed by his refusal to follow the law and the constitution. Selangor is in this mess because of him. So I won't say farewell, but I say good riddance. I hope Selangor recovers from his actions.

Aries46: Khalid was a victim of his own greed and obsession for power and thereby wrote his own obituary.

Sadly his five years of supposedly good leadership has been overshadowed by one year of allegedly corrupt dictatorship that questioned his loyalty and integrity in respect of his collusion in the water and Kidex concessions deals with Umno cronies, and settlement of his debt with Bank Islam.

The final straw was of course his mother of all betrayal follies in connivance with his PAS and Umno masters to hold Pakatan and Selangorians to ransom. I suppose that would more or less sum up his legacy.

Hank Marvin: Good riddance is the right parting word for Khalid Ibrahim. No farewell. He should have left on Aug 14 when PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail put up the 30 statutory declarations.

Like other human beings, Khalid has his own plusses and minuses. But the one thing which we cannot forgive is his willingness to become the lackey of Umno-BN.

Khalid is a disgrace who has thrown a spanner into the good work of others who worked so hard to put up a functional two-party system in Malaysia. That is Khalid's major sin and is difficult to forgive.

Rick Teo: It was a Pakatan's mistake from the beginning for appointing him as the MB. He merely fumbled and stumbled along the way and was credited with having amassed RM3 billion in Selangor coffers when the truth is Selangor could have accumulated just as much with anybody at the helm.

Haveagreatday: As a rakyat who has followed the Selangor MB fiasco closely, I can only say a lot of us are only too glad to see the last of him.

The apportioning of blame can continue ad infinitum, but the bottom line is that he only resigned when it was beyond dispute that he had lost majority support.

That, to me, is Khalid giving a bad showing - a nightmarish one to be more precise.

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