Was on @BFMradio to explain why PH nominated @anwaribrahim as our PM candidate. In my view, this does not constitute a U-turn. We thank @chedetofficial for not agreeing to form a govt with UMNO & PAS for principled reason. This is why we asked him to from a new PH govt. (1)
@BFMradio @anwaribrahim @chedetofficial But when he informed PH leaders that he wanted to form a government of individuals not of parties, it was clear that this was an unworkable proposal. This new govt would not have any obligations to the GE14 PH Manifesto & is against the mandate of the people in GE14. (2)
@BFMradio @anwaribrahim @chedetofficial Dr. M would be able to pick anyone he wanted into this cabinet including @AzminAli, who is the main reason for the collapse of the PH government in the first place. This is unacceptable to PH & to many of our supporters and voters too (3)
@BFMradio @anwaribrahim @chedetofficial @AzminAli We asked Dr. M to chair the PH meeting on Tuesday evening & convince him to lead a PH-govt but he refused to chair the meeting. We still recognized him as PH chairman since he did not step down from this position. But he declined the invitation to chair the meeting (4)
@BFMradio @anwaribrahim @chedetofficial @AzminAli In order to uphold the mandate given to PH in GE14 by the voters & to give full commitment to continue carrying out the PH manifesto, we had no choice but to nominate @anwaribrahim as our candidate for PM when we met with YDPA yesterday. (5)
@BFMradio @anwaribrahim @chedetofficial @AzminAli More detailed post on FB later today on the technical reasons on why a government of individuals would not be acceptable to PH & why it would be unworkable and unstable. #EndThread (6)
