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| BN backbenchers take a swipe at Koh |
| Written by Sharon Tan | |||
| Tuesday, 03 November 2009 00:24 | |||
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Datuk Seri Abdul Ghapur Salleh (Kalabakan-BN) lamented that being a minister in charge of key performance indicators (KPIs), Koh was not tactful. “He pronounced my constituency as “kebelakangan” (of late) while it should be Kalabakan,” he said, referring to Koh who made the mistake during the question-and-answer session earlier in the day. Abdul Ghapur also took a dig at Gerakan as its Youth movement during its national delegates conference over the weekend had made a motion calling for the party to leave BN. He said while the motion did not get through in the end, the party's central leaders should have filtered it before it reached the press. “Are they purposely trying to gain publicity so that the people, especially from the Chinese community would support them back?" “They are almost bankrupt in the peninsula with only two parliament seats left. Then, they went to Sabah. The Chinese community in peninsula rejected Gerakan and we get a minister in Sabah,” he said, referring to the appointment of former Sabah deputy chief minister Datuk Raymond Tan as Sabah's industrial development minister after joining Gerakan in May. “We don’t want BN to suffer from this because the Chinese in Sabah said (Gerakan) rejected in the peninsula and passed over to Sabah, because people in Sabah, especially the Chinese, do not accept Gerakan also,” said Abdul Ghapur. Datuk Mohamad Aziz (Sri Gading-BN) then interrupted and added that the Malays in the peninsula felt hurt by Gerakan Wanita chief Tan Lian Hoe's (BN-Gerik) statement that Malays were also immigrants in the country. “Not just the Chinese in Sabah, the Malays here also were offended by Gerakan. Should Gerakan contest in the next general election, I’m sure it will lose because the Malays are hurt by her remarks and she did not bother retracting it,” he said.
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