I refer to the Malaysiakini report Expert: Ku Li needs a strong 'running mate' .

Just like Barack Obama who is searching high and low for a good vice-president candidate to make his journey to the White House better, Ku Li, too, needs a good running mate to make his ambition to become Umno president and the country’s prime minister a reality come December when the grandest party in BN will have their elections for office-bearers.

Considering this might be Ku Li last hurrah to fulfill his ambition to become the prime minister of this country and to reform his battered party, his task will be much easier if he can team up with another senior Umno vice-president.

The only candidate that can fit the bill perfectly and who is prime minister-ship material himself is Muhiyiddin Yassin a senior vice-president of Umno. Muhiyiddin has make a lot of noise lately that the quota system to contest the top Umno post should be abolished.

For both Ku Li and Muhiyddin, the coming party polls represents a golden opportunity to achieve their political ambitions as age is fast catching up with them. It s now or never for both these senior Umno stalwarts to join forces.

If they wait any longer, a weak Umno might not be able to stop other BN MPs from jumping ship into the opposition.

As it is right now, BN member parties in Sabah are making plans to leave BN and this can only weaken the ruling coalition and thus our political landscape might change entirely. This is an interesting time for our nation as never before in the history of our country has such a situation arisen.

The ruling parties who have ruled the nation since independence might lose their grip on the federal government to the opposition front in the coming weeks.

With the impending change in the political landscape and with all the rumblings in Sabah, the political obituary of the embattled premier will be written sooner rather than later. The earth seems to be caving under Pak Lah’s weak leadership and our country might have a new prime minister come Sept 16 as envisaged by our prime minister-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim.

Pak Lah may have to forgo his ambition of defending his party post in December as the grassroots would blame him for the loss of the party’s strong political position in this country.

This begs another question - will Najib Razak’s tenure as deputy president be in jeopardy or will he make a good choice to become the president of Umno?

Only time will tell whether Umno is still relevant to our local political scene as practically all their top leaders have too much political baggage making them unpopular with the public at large.

A two-party system, which is slowly evolving in this country, is good for the nation. If the ruling party fumbles in running the nation, the public is given a choice (unlike before) to kick them out and bring in a new one.

Malaysians have made their collective decision in the last polls to reform the political landscape for the betterment of the people and nation. The ruling politicians should wake up to the new reality of our political scene where the old way of doing business is under close scanty of the public.

The last thing Malaysians desire, however, is snap polls. The people - who are suffering under the poor economic conditions - would rather have a new messiah to lead us out of our economic doldrums.

Pakatan Rakyat under the leadership of Anwar Ibrahim should be given a chance to rectify what ails our nation today rather than those currently at the helm.