Dr Mahathir says Najib is a disappointment compared to his father Razak.
Najib Razak is nothing like his father Abdul Razak Hussein, said Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Dr Mahathir said Razak was most concerned about the plight of the villagers and had brought about massive rural development but Najib instead adopted the “cash is king” attitude.
“When we say ‘cash is king’ it means that we can do anything at all with money. When we don’t have money, then we resort to stealing it,” he told Malaysian journalists at the conclusion of his two-leg visit to the United Kingdom yesterday.
Dr Mahathir said he was also disappointed over the damage done to the government machinery in Najib’s administration where government officers also campaigned during elections.
He said when he became the prime minister for the first time, in 1981, there was no problem with the government machinery.
“No problem, except having to make decisions on this matter and that. The government machinery functioned well,” he said relating his experience when he helmed the government administration from 1981 to 2003.