COMMENT In his last battle to remove the incumbent prime minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad had, among others, thrown the crooked bridge at him and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi came tumbling down from the pinnacle of power.

And now tongues are wagging that perhaps the debt-laden 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) would be the steel-toe boot to kick Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak out of Putrajaya...