Shafie missing the X-factor


Pakatan Harapan's credibility spirals downwards as the discord over who should be their prime minister candidate continues to play out like an unending soap opera.

GOOD fortune and disaster can sometimes strike at the same time and that was what happened to Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal recently.

Barely hours after his mentor Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad named him as the prime minister (PM) candidate for Pakatan Harapan, the heavens opened, the rain poured down and many parts of Sabah were inundated by the worst floods in years.

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