Former minister Rafidah Aziz has panned what she called the uncertainty, incoherence and despair surrounding the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, telling the leadership that real statesmen think of the next generation’s future instead of being fixated with the next election.

“I do not want to belabour on what the government needs to be doing to manage the pandemic, and attend to getting vaccines into people’s arms but please do it in a coherent and efficient way.

“Please do not...