COMMENT | The forthcoming Umno elections is a yawn, beyond seeing what leadership will emerge from the rubble of the Najib debacle.

It’s a ho-hum cast – the former DPM who loomed large, in a perverse biological fashion, in the shadow of Najib Razak, but who is now meekly reduced in stature; an elder statesman who wants to keep the party as a racial enclave; and a young one who thinks he can ride on the crest of a wave of change.

The event is so boring, I’m hoping the ROS will spice things up and rule that the extension granted for party elections was illegal. That should have the cat among the pigeons.

Bring things to a boil with the ruling, posing a legal axe hanging over the standing of Umno in GE14.

Or have the fugitive persecuted political martyr Jamal Md Yunos (photo below) voted in as Umno Youth head. That would be fun.

It was said he is on the ballot because he has not been found guilty of the charges he faced. Hello, that may be so, but he convicted himself by going on the run.

Political Pollyannas have been piously preaching about the need for Umno to swiftly get into shape and become a viable opposition.

O pleeeease…

If Ahmad Zahid Hamidi were to win, it would take a lot of airing, air-freshening to clear the house of Umno of the stench embedded during the Najib years.

If Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah were to win, Umno would be sharing the Malay vote with Pakatan Harapan and PAS. The party will be starting from scratch in East Malaysia. See any bright future on the horizon?

If Khairy Jamaluddin were to win, he would have difficulty not sounding like he was auditioning for Harapan.

The interest would be in his avowed ending of the rule of the warlords. Already the warlord of Padang Rengas has flown his banner and declared he isn’t abdicating any time...