I refer to the Malaysiakini report Abdul Razak: Najib not involved .

Time is reaching a standstill for Anwar Ibrahim. While the clock has turned back to place him in the dock for sodomy once again, the votes he had drawn from the masses to strike the biggest win in history for the opposition in Malaysia is dwindling at a rate faster than the slide of Dow Jones in Wall Street.

Anwar is in the dock this time on the reverse side of his attempt to deny Najib Abdul Razak the chance to become prime minister of Malaysia. But Najib has clinched it.

In the wake of Anwar’s ill-will lies a couple of affidavits, one alleging on hearsay that Najib had serially sodomised the murdered Mongolian woman, Altantuya Shariibuu, and the other appearing as a desperate attempt to send Najib and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, to the gallows.

Najib’s political strategist, Abdul Razak Baginda, since freed of the charge of abetment in the murder, has denied Najib and Rosmah had ever known Altantuya.

Razak lifted from the couple the cloud of suspicion Anwar and his sidekick, Raja Petra Kamaruddin, had conjured, giving the breather Najib needs to move on to his destiny, a chance to do as well as his great father had done for the Malays and for Malaysians.

The result is a certain relief especially among members and supporters of Umno who had voted the opposition on March 8, 2008. Chinese and Indians are returning to the MCA and MIC too.

Most people answere positively when asked whether Malay voters would choose Umno again as they did between 1999 and 2004. The pendulum has swung one way and then the other in the aftermath of Anwar’s incarceration following charges of corruption and sodomy.

In the wake of the new developments, someone quickly wrote to remind the people Anwar had made an agreement with PAS and the DAP not to question the special privileges of the Malays and the position of Islam.

But what would such an agreement be worth? These matters are already enshrined in the constitution.

Anwar is still baying for a simple majority he could not produce as promised before 16 Sept 16 and now ‘before December.

He ought to be reminded the opposition merely managed to take about 40 percent of the total Malays votes in the March 8 elections, the largest chunks coming from Kelantan and Kedah states.

Umno, which held onto the remaining 60 percent, can and will regain the lost ground in the next general elections or in a snap-election Najib may choose to call before the end of next year, though probably not as well as it had done in 2004.

Even as Umno is grappling to control ‘money politics’ that’s bedeviling the party’s morale, Anwar, it would seem, has failed to control the emotions of his bedfellows, and is now verging upon political bankruptcy.

The charismatic political maestro is closing in on his end... the sage withered from the lakes and the birds no longer sing.