Who is in control - Najib or Badawi?

I was reading the Mkini report on RPK’s sedition trial titled “Najib crops up in alleged letter and photograph” and then I saw Malaysian Insider’s Pak Lah era ends on March 31 as Najib steps in as sixth PM . If it is a certainty that Najib has consolidated his power and will automatically assume the throne as the Malaysian insider would suggest, then why all the negative publicity about Najib in the ongoing RPK’s trial?

If Najib is really in control, why did he not instruct the police to drop the charges in the sedition trial and also get his lawyer to drop the charges in the defamation trial, as they both centre around the Altantuya murder case and implicitly involves him and his wife? If he really wants to nail RPK, there is still the ISA appeal by the govt. that they can use to punish RPK.

I spoke to people who have been attending the sedition trial proceedings whereby the star witness, ASP Gan was being grilled by RPK’s lawyer, Gobind Singh Deo. All of them say that Gan seems to be hiding something, not telling the complete truth and making a fool out of himself. Mind you, he is a superintendant and linked with Interpol with 30 years of experience in the police force. So instead of being convincing, authoritative and assertive given his rank and experience, he comes across as the opposite, like the Inspector Clouseau. It is such a weak case, not helped by Gan's performance, and furthermore, Najib’s name is being dragged into the spotlight again, in an unfavorable light. Just when he thinks the Altantunya ghost is buried with the release of his good friend Razak Baginda, here comes RPK and Gobind resurrecting the spirit of Altantunya and using the media, mainstream included, to haunt Najib.

My question is this: who is really running the country and dictating things? Is it Badawi or Najib? Going by the press reports in the last few days, I don’t believe Najib is in full control. Otherwise there would have been direction to tone down the reporting on RPK's sedition trial. This thus makes the Malaysian Insider’s report of him taking over on March 31, as wishful thinking, to say the least.