Former Selangor menteri besar Muhammad Muhammad Taib has been saddled with a puzzling question regarding Umno and BN losing the state in the 2008 general election.

Muhammad said while BN had won in backward states, which do not even have water supply, it, however, lost in a developed state like Selangor, which has ports, airports, roads and various facilities.

This evening, the office of his successor, Azmin Ali, provided the answer.

Referring to Muhammad as a “recycled politician”, the Menteri Besar Office's strategic communications director Yin Shao Loong claimed that the answer is common knowledge.

“By March 2008, Umno and BN had become irrelevant, even distasteful, to the voters of Selangor because the people were fed up with decades of corruption, wastage and mismanagement,” he said.

Yin said it was not a case of the people of Selangor suddenly becoming ungrateful for the roads, infrastructure, water and electricity supply...