I used to watch TV news especially at 8.00 pm news. It is always after dinner time where family will sit down to enjoy TV show. Recently, I was stunned by TV3 news on Dengue news. It quiet weird compare to before Permatang Pauh election. Before, I seen and heard much riot news at Permatang Pauh and our country seem to be in state of emergency because Anwar and his friend raged at Permatang Pauh. Now, everything is reported as Ok though RTBN must report BN defeat at Permatang Pauh. Tun Mahatir was right when he mentioned that Pak Lah will only hear the good news and not bad news.
Last night, RTBN reported that Pensiangan election is null due to nomination paper issue and Joseph comment on TV. What next? RTBN will announce the next defeat soon? Unless the Sabahan like Pairin and Bung Mokthar. I was shame to see a Dusun or Kadazan Dato’ who represented UMNO at Keninggau. Isn’t that weird? Where are USNO and UPKO? Why UMNO my fellow friend at Keninggau and Tenom? Why? To adopt UMNO is to invite disaster and that is in point of fact. You see, nobody want to preserve Mat Saleh’s monument in Tambunan because Mat Saleh is not from UMNO but “pirate”. RTBN is used by UMNO and BN ant it getting uninteresting.
Government has lost twice at Permatang Pauh and I agree with Malaysia Today author’s statement. BN lost it seat and people trust including bloggers. RTBN is naked and telling the people that they are wearing the greatest garment to hide it shame. To me, blocking certain blogs is losing people’s trust towards BN. We are yet too see Semak to step down soon and it was made by protest and riot. In Malaysia somehow, blogs seem to be the scariest thing to RTBN. We criticize the government because we care and I do not know if there anybody who dares to ask Pak Lah on Gerakan ans MCa issue at Warkah untuk PM. Some will get blasted or his posts will never some out in the site.
Ministers from Sabah and Sarawak went to Taiwan and hope that is not a “Ming Court affair” instead of “visitation”. If Anwar is about to from a government on this coming 16 September, we hope that Media Prima will be under new management and RTBN will close down too.
2 comments:
I am not a lecturer.Just a grammar school teacher.
Saffie Abdal cannot do anything. his post was made for nothing. You go to Semporna and see what he has over there.
THE jostling has begun in the Barisan Nasional and Parti Keadilan Rakyat for the opportunity to contest the Pensiangan parliamentary seat even before yesterday's election court decision has sunk in.
The leading contenders appear unconcerned that a contest may not even come about if Tan Sri Joseph Kurup, who held the seat before the election court nullified his win, appeals against the court decision and wins.
As far as the BN is concerned, two names stand out -- Kurup, by virtue of having held the seat for six months, and former MP for the constituency, Datuk Bernard Maraat, who was dropped in the March 8 election.
The field in the PKR is also down to two men -- Danny Andipai, a Pensiangan-born politician who filed the petition to declare Kurup's election invalid and state PKR leader, Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, who was born and bred in neighbouring Tambunan.
Kurup has indicated that he wants to contest the seat in the event the Federal Court overturns High Court Judge David Wong Dak Wah's judgement.
He has instructed his lawyers to file for a stay of execution of the court's judgment and to file an appeal in the Federal Court.
Wong ruled that Election Commission returning officer and Nabawan district officer Bubudan Majalu had erred in rejecting nomination papers submitted by Andipai on grounds of late submission.
He also rejected the nomination papers of two others.
Majalu had declared that Kurup had won the seat uncontested on nomination day after the other candidates failed to make it on time.
Maraat, who was dropped in the 2004 election by Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah headed by Kurup, has since joined Parti Bersatu Sabah of which he is Liawan divisional chief.
"My telephone has not stopped ringing and people have been flooding my house here, urging me to reclaim the seat. I will not hide the fact that I am keen to contest the seat I won in 2004 but the final decision will have to be made by the BN leadership.
"I would be lying if I say I am not interested, especially to the rakyat. I also have a proven track record," said Maraat who, however, preferred not to comment on Kurup who had also said that he was ready for a by-election, if it was called.
Maraat said he was the right candidate for the constituency based on his report card during his tenure as Pensiangan MP.
"If a by-election is called, we have to look at the bigger picture especially after BN lost in Permatang Pauh.
"There are many factors that need to be considered and I believe I can deliver."
On the PKR front, state PKR chief Ansari Abdullah has proposed Andipai as the party candidate in the event a by-election is called.
His announcement has not gone down well with Kitingan's supporters who feel the party should field a heavyweight to have any chance of winning.
"I agree with my supporters that it is crucial for PKR to choose a political heavyweight for any chance of wresting the seat from BN," Kitingan said.
If Kitingan is chosen to be PKR's flag-bearer, he will have a chance to avenge his defeat to Kurup for the Sook state seat in the 2004 election.
In that year, he narrowly lost to Kurup, and is now using his defeat as a point in his argument to be the PKR's candidate.
However, with Ansari's open backing for Andipai's candidacy, Kitingan will have an uphill task ahead of him.
"Dr Jeffrey has sent his people to persuade me to back off and pave the way for him to be the PKR candidate," said Andipai, who is Pensiangan PKR division chief.
Begging to differ from the perception that Kitingan is the best candidate, Andipai argued that it was not fair for Kitingan to lobby for the seat as he had contested the Keningau parliamentary and Bingkor state seats in the recent general election and lost.
"I respect Dr Jeffrey as a veteran leader and seasoned politician, but we must also consider the sentiments on the ground who want a local from Pensiangan to be the candidate."
Andipai felt that he could have won the seat in the March 8 election if his nomination papers to contest had not been rejected.
"Now I have an opportunity to prove that I am capable of winning the seat, and I should not be robbed of this chance," said the 41-year-old former assistant pharmacist.
To prove that the Pensiangan constituents want him to be the candidate, Andipai plans to embark on a signature campaign.
"Compared to Dr Jeffrey, I may be a nobody but I know the Pensiangan people are with me and I will resist any attempts by him to deny me a chance to be the PKR's candidate."
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