COMMENT | What is more ludicrous than the rhetorical contortions political operatives make when addressing Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) are the lengths unity government supporters go to demonstrate how all is kosher in Madaniville.

Zahid must be smirking at how once hardcore proponents of transparency and anti-corruption are bending over backwards on social media attempting to justify this DNAA and pushing the narrative that the prime minister has nothing to do with it.

The Madani government line, meanwhile, is that it also happened during Perikatan Nasional’s time in the hot seat, which supposedly justifies...