COMMENT Are we seeing the opening play in the Najib Razak administration's pattern of ‘feint-and-pass' in the assertion by the Election Commission's deputy chair that he has never been an Umno member?

Students of this pattern would have noted that when the administration is under intense pressure, it feints, like a rugby player, in the direction of reform before slipping the ball to the back-up who will then proceed to maintain the status quo, with minor trimmings.

Thus primed, observers of the ‘feint-and-pass' maneuver ought to be wary of the latest twist to the saga of Wan Ahmad Wan Omar's membership in Umno...