If Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah joins PKR...

Ku Li will be seen as threat to Anwar Ibrahim to be next prime minister of Malaysia if (they forget about the big ‘IF’) Pakatan Rakyat wins the next general election. Look at the negative reaction from PKR’s supporters towards Zaid Ibrahim’s recent proposal regarding the appointment of PAS: Tok Guru Nik Aziz as the spiritual leader of Pakatan Rakyat.

Ku Li will most probably suffer the same fate as Zaid Ibrahim and will be forced into taking sabbatical leave to focus on something outside of PKR. If PKR does not know how to appreciate Zaid Ibrahim, do you think they can handle someone of Ku Li’s calibre?

PKR seems like not a good choice for Ku Li...unless he can be as powerful as Zulkifli Noordin…

If Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah joins PAS...

Ku Li has been known to speak the right thing and for being firm on his principles; even to the extent of criticising his own party leaders for not following the rule of law and making dumb statements. If Ku Li is in PAS, he’ll probably be slapped with suspensions like Khalid Samad for speaking out against party leaders in public, even though he is doing to right thing to save his party image from plunging.

No matter what Ku Li does to improve PAS’s image, in the end it will be in vain because PAS has the habit of shooting its own foot whenever it likes. Worse still, PAS may just serve him another punishment to prevent him from making any public statements to the press so that he cannot advise (well, to PAS, advice has been always regarded as a form of criticism) PAS anymore from the outside.

If Ku Li is in PAS, we may not able to hear from him for many months to come...

If Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah joins DAP...

This is unthinkable; because Ku Li will not feel comfortable attending any DAP-hosted functions. Their speakers have the tendency to forget about the feelings of the minorities, especially their Malay and Indian supporters when delivering their speeches.

Most of them will spend about 30-50 percent of their speeches’ time to address the Chinese supporters using the Chinese language.

Once I attended a DAP function in Kampung Tunku and I felt so sorry for the Muslim supporters from PAS and PKR sitting down there uncomfortably because each speaker of the event spent at least 50% of their time speaking in Mandarin which they did not understand.

If DAP is serious about creating a ‘Malaysian Malaysia’, and determined to attract more Malays to join their cause, then they should restrict the use of the Mandarin language in all their functions nationwide. I can’t imagine Ku Li joining a party which calls itself a multi-racial party when its soul is acting like a Chinese party just like the MCA.

No chance for Ku Li to join DAP as well...

Let’s imagine if Ku Li does join Pakatan Rakyat now – do you think Ku Li can still draw as much attention when making the ‘right’ statements compared to his days in Umno? Ku Li’s ‘right statements’ on oil royalties or other governmental issues astoundingly stand-out and are remarkable and noticeable because he sounds as a unique voice of conscience out of Umno.

If Ku Li is a Pakatan member, his ‘right statements’ will be regarded just like any other ‘right statements’ issued by opposition leaders and it won’t be ‘outstandingly noticeable’ because it is a norm for an opposition member to issue ‘right statements’ that oppose the government’s view.

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah is a gem in our politics. Umno and Barisan Nasional know about this or else why haven’t we see anyone from Umno or Barisan foolish enough to ask Ku Li to leave and join Pakatan Rakyat despite him making numerous critical statements against his own party?

Pakatan should stop persuading Ku Li to switch camps; instead they must do something to improve themselves and prove their worth to lure Ku Li to join forces on the bandwagon for change, weeks before the next general elections.

Ku Li is much more valuable to Pakatan if he stays in Umno rather than joining Pakatan Rakyat as of now. Pakatan needs Ku Li’s voice and help to continue to criticise the government as an Umno leader rather than an opposition leader.

After all, what’s the point of moving into a new house, when the new house has yet to prove it is going to be better, safer and more reliable than the old house?

P.S. I also think that PAS has forgotten about their bitter defeat in Bagan Pinang.