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Najib Razak

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The Resume

    (July 23, 1952- )
    Born in Kuala Lipis, Malaysia
    Minister of Youth and Sports (1987-90)
    Minister of Defense (1990-95, 1999-2008)
    Minister of Education (1995-99)
    Minister of Finance (2008-18)
    Prime Minister of Malaysia (2009-18)

Why he might be annoying:

    His full name is the unwieldy Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak.
    He was elected to Parliament to replace his late father (1976).
    Two of his bodyguards were convicted of murdering Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa, who had attempted to blackmail Abdul Razak Baginda, one of Najib’s aides, for a $500,000 cut of a ‘facilitation fee’ Baginda received on the purchase of two submarines from France when Najib was defense minister.
    His efforts to maintain power included arresting the leader of the opposition party on sodomy charges, filing sedition charges against critics, suspending two newspapers, and pushing through Parliament a national security law that gave him the power to declare any part of Malaysia a ‘security area,’ where authorities can make arrests, conduct searches, and seize property without warrants.
    When the Wall Street Journal and a London-based whistleblower site reported that over $700 million had been funneled from 1MDB, a state-owned investment bank, to Najib’s personal accounts, he demanded that ‘white people’ stay out of Malaysian affairs (2015).
    When he was arrested on corruption charges, police found 72 suitcases stuffed with cash at his various properties (July 3, 2018).
    After a year and a half long trial, he was convicted on seven counts of abuse of power, money laundering, and criminal abuse of trust and sentenced to twelve years in prison (July 28, 2020).

Why he might not be annoying:

    As Defense Minister, he oversaw the deployment of Malaysian troops on UN peacekeeping missions in Bosnia (1993), Somalia (1993), and Lebanon (2006).
    No one was able to directly connect him to the Altantuyaa murder.
    He overturned regulations requiring corporations to be at least 30% owned by ethnic Malays (2009).
    He played golf with Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, who called him ‘my favorite prime minister.’

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 37 Votes: 10.81% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 8 Votes: 100% Annoying