It has been eight months after he was sacked as deputy prime minister that Muhyiddin Yassin and the veteran Umno man could not help but lament his current predicament.

Albeit jokingly, Muhyiddin said his attendance at an event held in Kota Tinggi, Johor, tonight was void of the usual scores of outriders and the beating of the traditional kompang.

“Today, there’s not even one kompang,” he said, to laughter from the some 1,500 people comprising of the village’s locals.