Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has extolled his own record of helping rural communities, especially when compared to an "expired leader."

“I have been working long under him, so I know his behaviour.

"I can read it (his behaviour) one by one, he never intended to help the rural people, not that I want to say this, but what I am doing now is far better than that leader,” he was reported as saying by Bernama...