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Tan Sri Muhiyuddin's dealings in land when mentri besar or Johore was the talk of the town. It was during his tenure that Singapore residents built houses on Malay reservation land in the state. Like Tan Sri Muhammad Taib of Selangor and Tan Sri Osman Aroff of Kedah, he alienated large tracts of land, and used his official position to the utmost to dominate the state. So thoroughly did he fall foul of the Sultan, who objected to the large transfers of land to foreigners, he was eventually forced out. A mistep to ensure his brother, Aziz Yassin, a member of parliament led to one likely successor as mentri besar, Dato' Shahrir Samad, to be squeezed out of a state assembly seat in the last general elections in 1995, and therefore made out of the running. In Kuala Lumpur, his high expectations of what cabinet post he should hold alienated him from the prime minister: instead of the finance or the international trade and industry portfolio he coveted, he got youth and sports. He was an early member of Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim's Wawasan team. Elected vice president in 1993 in the euphoria of the Anwar landslide as deputy president of UMNO, he crashed three years later near the bottom of the vice presidential candidates. Rumours in Kuala Lumpur do not credit him with ministerial longevity.
