Ownership or Politics?

I'm currently monitoring a project that I closed last year in a GLC. It's a human resource project and when we first start, the project owner, one of the senior managers in HR was so full of excitement envisioning the completion of the project and what good it would do to the company.

So, we are almost near to the go-live date of the project, when a new HR director joined the company. Prior to this, there was no director, so I guess the project owner was sort of happy handling his baby. As typical as it is, new boss means new structure. So, this project owner's portfolio has somehow been reduced and re-assigned to other people, not to mention the new group of people this director is bringing in to the company. So our friend somehow just dropped all interest in the project, as is he's washing his hands off the project. Now my team is feeling that we are doing this project "syok sendiri" and they have become demotivated.

Never in our past projects we experienced such lack of ownership from the customer. I just don't understand the mentality of the people in this GLC. There are just too much politics going round, and people seem to be so superficial here. No one dares to be bold enough to stand out and bring changes to this GLC. And we are talking of a GLC that used to be the pride of the nation, coming up with Malaysian made product, roaming the streets in UK, Singapore, Australia, Egypt and many other nations. When the company is reviving now, the employees should realize that they can no longer be in their comfort zone. Things need to move to ensure change. And what my team & I are doing is only partial contribution to enable effective monitoring and strategizing of the human capital in this GLC. What we expect is for the people in this company to work together and make it happen.

It seems that the only person who's really interested is the MD. But he's been shed off a lot if information. So how do we get moving here?