Make intentions clear before offering ‘assistance’, PPP told

Make intentions clear before offering ‘assistance’, PPP told

Posted on October 3, 2011, Monday

KUCHING: People’s Progressive Party (PPP) should come clean on its decision to spread its wings to Sarawak before offering its ‘sincere’ assistance to the State Barisan Nasional (BN) in the coming general election.

PBB youth vice chief Pandi Suhaili pointed out that so far the explanations provided by the party leaders were non-satisfactory.

“In the past the party said it had to come to Sarawak because of requests made by few hundred Sarawakians.

“It is not a good argument because those who wanted to bring in Umno claimed to have ten thousand Sarawakians behind their efforts but still Umno didn’t want to come in as the party respected the local parties in the state.

“To us in the PBB Youth, when PPP decided not to emulate Umno in respecting the spirit of Barisan Nasional, it showed us that the party had an ulterior motive of coming over here,” he said when contacted yesterday.

No reason for PPP to enter state – PBB Youth vice-chief

No reason for PPP to enter state – PBB Youth vice-chief

Posted on August 11, 2011, Thursday

KUCHING: The reasons given by People’s Progressive Party (PPP) for its decision to spread its wings to the state are baseless, said Parti Pesaka Bumiputera (PBB) Youth vice-chief Pandi Suhaili.

He added the peninsula-based party should not use locals as their front to grab seats from the component parties of State Barisan Nasional (BN).

“Recently the party said 500 Sarawakians wanted the party to come to the state but why can’t the party leaders take a cue from Umno’s decision not to come in despite having so-called 70,000 Sarawakians wanting the party to come as claimed by JPUNS (Jawatankuasa Penaja Umno Negeri Sarawak),” he asked.

Pandi said it was obvious that the party never had any intention of helping the State BN despite claims made by the party leaders.

“What we can see is the party has an ulterior motive and is using locals to accomplish its objective.

Presence and purpose in Sarawak questioned

Borneo Post
Posted on July 23, 2011, Saturday

KUCHING: The Secretary General of Sarawak Barisan Nasional Datuk Stephen Rundi Itom yesterday warned People’s Progressive Party (PPP) that the state BN would not compromise the presence of the party in the state if it jeopardizes the strength and structure of the Sarawak BN.

Rundi, who is also the Secretary General of PBB,the backbone of the Sarawak BN Government, said the presence of the party here will not help the BN as a whole because the party is not even doing well in Semenanjung.

“I dont want to pre-empt their motives but if it jeopardizes the Sarawak BN components’ strength and structure, we will not compromise.

“They are not doing well in Semenanjung … I don’t see what good they can do here either,” he said when contacted yesterday.

The secretary general, who is to-date the highest ranking Sarawak BN leader to comment on the approval given by the Registrar of Society (ROS) to PPP to open up branches in the state, said it would be better form BN as a whole if the party focuses on efforts to strengthen its base in the states in the peninsula before “thinking of spreading its wings to Sarawak.”

‘PPP not an alternative to SUPP’

Borneo Post

Posted on July 23, 2011, Saturday

KUCHING: Sarawak United People’s Party’s poor performance in the last state election should not be used as the basis for approving the application by Peninsula-based People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to set up a branch in Sarawak.

A PBB youth state exco Ambrose Jemut Ukam said Putra Jaya is making a big mistake in assuming that PPP could be an alternative to SUPP in the state.

“SUPP is a Chinese-dominant party while PPP is not. Therefore, don’t use the party’s loss of many seats in the last election as a reason to come in,” he said when contacted yesterday.

He pointed out that although SUPP only won six out of 19 seats contested in the last election, Sarawak Barisan Nasional (BN) still managed to get more than two-thirds majority in the election.

“If the Sarawak BN had lost in the last election, then we have no qualms accepting any Semenanjung-based component party of BN here but that is not the case.