Tuesday April 5, 2011
BALINGIAN: State Barisan Nasional chairman Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud is not telling who the mystery candidate for Ba’Kelalan seat is.
“I do not know. I do not know many things,” he said when asked by the media after he attended a berambeh (get-together) event here yesterday.
Asked if it would be Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Idris Jala, a Bario Kelabit, he chuckled, “I don’t know.”
Instead, he shot back, “What is more important is who the PKR candidate in Dalat is.”
Among those in the local media community, many felt that the chief minister was not taking lightly PKR’s nomination of former Bintulu Development Authority (BDA) general manager Sylvester Ajah Subah to stand in Dalat.
Ajah, given his good corporate track record, cannot be seen as just another pushover, therefore, to say that Dalat incumbent Datin Fatimah Abdullah will have to work harder to ensure a win is a misnomer.
Ajah could very well turn out to be the winner, and Taib most probably recognises this possibility.
Asked for her comments, Fatimah’s only offer was, “This is a democratic country and it is up to him to contest.”
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