The Gelang Patah MP said voters in the Johor constituency of Pagoh, where Muhyiddin is MP, and other rural areas around the country should emulate the example set by the PPBM president and Pakatan Harapan (PH) deputy president.
“Muhyiddin was not sacked for any corruption, crime, wrong or mistake but because he was too honest and too principled in speaking the truth to save Johor and Malaysia from a global kleptocracy,” Lim said.
“Muhyiddin was not prepared to shut his eyes, close his ears and seal his lips over the largest financial scandal in the nation’s history, the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal, which had made Malaysia overnight into a global kleptocracy,” he added.
Lim, who is DAP parliamentary leader, said this in a statement issued today based on his speech at a dinner held by the DAP’s Grisek branch in Johor last night.
He called on voters in Pagoh and other rural places to also launch a “political tsunami”, in support of the opposition, to match the urban tsunami that was seen in the last general election in May 2013.
Claiming that Umno extolled blind loyalty as a virtue, Lim said it was not part of the system of values in the Rukunegara and not something to be inculcated in young Malaysians.
“If Malaysia is to achieve greatness as a nation, the nation should not become a nation of sheep and no political party should be a political party of sheep,” he said.
“We want thinking Malaysians in every political party in the nation, who can discern right from wrong and truth from lies,” he added.
Lim also claimed that Umno was undergoing “convulsions and convolutions” since PH launched its logo and announced its leadership line-up after its presidential council meeting on July 13.
He claimed that the Umno leadership had become aware of three risks it faced in the upcoming 14th general election (GE14).
He listed these as loss of support from the majority of Malay voters, from most of the country’s civil servants and from “the highest percentage” of Umno members at any general election.