Kedah opposition weights in on Mukhriz' resignation

ALOR STAR: Kedah opposition elected representatives remain nonplussed over the whole mentri besar crisis and are of the opinion nothing has changed.
Bukit Pinang assemblyman Romani Wan Salim was not buying the reasons for the removal of Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir as mentri besar.
He said Mukhriz was criticised for failing to bring development and unite the state Umno but pointed out politics was not a one-man show.
"If he has failed then the others have failed too," he told theSun when contacted for his response over the change.
Romani stressed the opposition will remain as a check and balance in the Kedah administration and dismissed talk the new MB will be given a pass.
"Let us wait for the next general election," he said when asked if this development could benefit PAS which lost the state government in 2013.
His colleague, Tokai assemblyman Datuk Mohamed Taulan Mat Rasul, also had similar sentiments.
"It is all the same," he told theSun and stressed the opposition will retain a critical check on the performance of the Kedah administration.
Pokok Sena MP and Kedah PAS commissioner Datuk Mahfuz Omar meanwhile did not mince his words over the whole affair and described the incoming administration as one without "political morals".
He said this was because the purported signed statutory declarations were not worth more than toilet paper and showed those who signed the document were more interested in their own affairs than the people.
"He (Mukhriz) was left with no choice but to resign," he said when met outside the home of former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, father of Mukhriz, when visiting the former MB after he resigned today.
The DAP also remained unimpressed with Derga assemblyman and Kedah DAP chair Tan Kok Yew expressing his disappointment with Mukhriz for not settling the matter at the state legislature.
He said a motion of no confidence should have been called at the assembly instead of "taking the easy way out" by stepping down.
"Go back to the state legislative assembly to sort out the matter," he told theSun, adding that DAP will play its role as a responsible opposition in the state.
PKR meanwhile was having none of the drama over the crisis with Alor Star MP Gooi Hsiao Leung saying Mukhriz should not have been deposed in such a manner.
He said the people were outraged as the former MB was seen as clean and described the reasons for his departure as "baseless and totally frivolous".
"Ousting Mukhriz will result in BN's certain defeat in Kedah in the 14th general election," he said in a statement.