Some people opined that zuraidi is a lame duck and the top echelons asked for him to walk.
" Ba' Am " is seen to have more concrete ideas. The other high flyer nicki whoselan has stumbled with CBT over his head. So " Ba' Am " is the shoo in. Remember someone did say that way back in the 90's RAT and Dr Con had been asked to " protect " those 2 individuals.