Malaysiakini keeps referring to Ahmad Ismail as “a powerful” Penang Umno politician.
Honestly, how many people — malaysiakini journalists included — have heard of Ahmad before the controversy erupted?
How is he powerful?
If he was so powerful, how could then Penang CM Koh Tsu Koon tell him to fly kite when he asked for a second term as a lowly councillor? And that’s one of the lowest ranks in the political food chain. Is that power?
Most other publications, MSM and foreign wires, refer to him as “district chief”.
Sin Chew Daily has it spot on. He’s “an insignificant UMNO divisional chairman”.