MACC advisory board chairman Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was a leader that the people could rely on to do the right thing in any crisis. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa

KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak is the leader that Malaysia needs, especially when the world is facing the threat of terrorism, said Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission advisory board chairman Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim.

He said the Prime Minister was a leader that the people could rely on to do the right thing in any crisis.

In his fight against terrorism, Najib displayed true leadership that reminded the people that no one could lead without taking on hard choices for the common good, Tunku Abdul Aziz added.

“With ISIS at our gate, fair-minded Malaysians are beginning to realise that here is a prime minister who is not afraid to put people first and their votes second.

“In short, the peace and security of the nation is not negotiable and Najib has, in his quiet way, shown that it must remain his paramount consideration always,” he said in an article published on the newly launched portal ‘Malaysia Outlook’.

He said that domestically, as the abuse of social media by individuals led to racial polarisation, the silent majority must fight against complacency and “add their voice in support of measures instituted by the government that will ensure that we will continue to live in peace and harmony”.

Tunku Abdul Aziz said considerations of race must never be a dominant factor as Malaysians strike out in search of a new identity and that racial unity remains the key to the country’s future.

“We may have a country, but we have yet to have a nation because far too many of us are so easily persuaded that because ethnicity divides us, it is not unnatural that we should opt to live our lives in our own ghettoes.

“There is no better time than the present for true patriotic Malaysians who love this, the country of their birth to rediscover and re-establish their sense of Malaysianness, that state of being that defies description but captures our imagination as nothing else will,” he added. — Bernama