With a strong mandate, Hasni could be as good as Ghani

My most trusted source in Johor told me that the state election is almost certain to be held immediately after the Chinese New Year holiday next month.

Well, that's good.

As I previously wrote, a new mandate for a stable state government is necessary for Johor to move forward from the current doldrums, which actually started in 2013..

Currently, the state government doesn't have much room to manoeuvre as its single majority in the legislative assembly means that it could be toppled at any time should it makes any decision that is unpopular among certain quarters.

As I believe most of you would agree, that has been the state of  the country's administration ever since  Pakatan won the general election in 2018.

Political frogs have been the ones who determined which parties should control Putrajaya as well as the state administrations.

It has been the same in Johor too after GE14.

One of the frogs in Johor is now in trouble for allegedly molesting a member of his party's Srikandi wing while they were going around, supposedly helping victims of the recent floods.

Guilty or not, the whole thing was quite sordid, if you asked me.

Really, the frogs are not very nice people after all.

Well, we can get rid of them at the planned state election.

Anyway, the way I see it, MB Hasni needs to lead a strong state government if he is to govern properly.

If he has a convincing mandate, then no one could interfere with his administration.

No one could flex his power and tell Hasi what to do or what not to do.

No one could demand things from him with a threat to get the frogs to pull out support for his administration in the state assembly.

Only then can Hasni say no to people who would try to influence his decisions as MB due to their vested interests in the state.

I think Hasni is capable of being a truly good MB if he has such a strong mandate.

I do have high hopes of him being as good as the last good Johor MB that is TS Abdul Ghani Othman.

As I remember it, Ghani had dared to say NO to even the most powerful if it's not in the best interest of Johor and its people.

Okay, maybe Hasni is a person of softer character than Ghani, but he is definitely stronger than Khaled Nordin....sigh, have to mention that name pulak.

Never mind.

So, all I'm hoping now is that for Hasni to insist on fielding a good line-up of candidates of his choice for BN in the state election.

If there is no interference from KL, I'm confident he could lead BN to a more than comfortable win in Johor .

He could then use the strong mandate to become a really good MB with an administration capable of doing things solely in the interests of RAKYAT negeri Johor.