COMMENT What must have came upon Mohamad Sabu that he delivered of himself a strange and puzzling speech at the first year commemoration of former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's jailing for sodomy in Sungai Buloh last night?

The Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) chief must have been overwrought - fatigued perhaps by the exertions of setting up his new party - such that his exhaustive labours caused him to take temporary leave of his judgment.

For Mat Sabu - as he is popularly known - did what politicians out to popularise their causes usually refrain from: he launched a diatribe against the very people he canvasses for political support over alleged cowardice in tolerating the abuses of their present governors.