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Ahli SPDP yang hadir ke mesyuarat SPDP Bahagian Marudi.

MARUDI 5 Mei– Parti Demokratik Progresif Sarawak (SPDP) mengingatkan parti komponen Barisan Nasional (BN) yang lain agar tidak ‘kacau daun’ di konstituensi SPDP dalam Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-13 (PRU Ke-13) nanti.

“Jika ada tangan yang nakal mahu campur tangan dan apabila tindakan itu memakan diri sendiri, jangan salahkan orang lain,” kata Timbalan Presiden SPDP, Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing.

Katanya, setakat ini parti sudah menghantar beberapa senarai calon yang berpotensi untuk bertanding di konstituensi SPDP, namun keputusan sama ada calon tersebut bertanding atau sebaliknya, belum dimuktamadkan.

“Kita memang sudah ada beberapa calon yang layak. Berdasarkan maklumat yang saya terima, calon Baram ialah Dato Jacob Dungau Sagan manakala calon Mas Gading pula akan ditukar,” katanya berucap merasmikan Mesyuarat Agung Tahunan SPDP Bahagian Marudi di Rumah Morgan, Sungai Nyipa, Marudi hari ini.

Dalam pada itu, Tiong yang juga Pengerusi Kelab Penyokong Kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BNBBC) mengingatkan rakyat di Baram agar meneruskan sokongan terhadap kepimpinan Ahli Parlimen Baram, Dato Jacob Dungau Sagan untuk meningkatkan majoriti.

“Saya menyeru Wanita dan Pemuda SPDP untuk membantu sepenuhnya melindungi semua kerusi yang ditandingi dan meningkatkan majoriti kemenangan,” katanya.

Pada majlis yang sama, Tiong mengumumkan peruntukan sebanyak RM5,000 untuk peralatan PA System.

Dato Seri Tiong King Sing berucap ketika perasmian mesyuarat SPDP Bahagian Marudi.

PEKAN BELURU, 5 Mei – Timbalan Presiden Parti Demokratik Progresif Sarawak (SPDP), Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing menyelar tindakan Datuk Sylvester Entri Muran, seorang daripada anggota SPDP 5 yang mendesak rakyat menyerahkan Kad SPDP mereka dan mengisi borang Kelab Barisan Nasional (BN) Sarawak jika mahu permohonan projek luar bandar mereka diluluskan.

Tiong yang juga Pengerusi Kelab Penyokong Kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BNBBC) berkata, semua projek yang dikendalikan oleh BN adalah bertujuan untuk membantu rakyat dan boleh didapati tanpa sebarang syarat.

“Tindakan Sylvester ini tidak ubah seperti, menyuruh si suami menceraikan si isteri jika mahu projek yang dimohon diluluskan,” katanya berucap merasmikan Pejabat SPDP Bahagian N66 Marudi di Marudi hari ini.

Ujar Tiong, SPDP yang ditubuhkan pada 2002 pernah menjadi sebuah parti yang bersatu-padu, namun baru-baru ini keadaan bertukar kecoh dan keliru yang dicetuskan oleh Kelab BN Sarawak.

“Mereka (Kumpulan 5) mendakwa menyokong BN, namun apa yang mereka lakukan sebenarnya adalah mensabotaj. Sebagai contoh, apabila SPDP menganjurkan aktiviti, mereka juga menganjurkan aktiviti yang sama. Sebagai contoh, apa yang berlaku di Rumah Joshua baru-baru ini.”

“Nasihat saya kepada Sylvester, jangan bermain kayu tiga. Saya pernah diberitahu bahawa Sylvester pernah memberitahu kepada Presiden parti Tan Sri William Mawan Ikom bahawa beberapa ahli parti mahu menyokong SPDP daripada segi kewangan dengan syarat saya dipecat.”

Menurut Tiong, namun Mawan enggan walaupun adalah adil untuk mendedah dan mencabar Sylvester memberi keterangan mengenai perkara itu.

“Mawan seorang yang ‘gentlemen’ dan budiman pada 2009. Sepatutnya Sylvester menghargai. Malah beliau menekankan pentingnya semua kaum termasuk Orang Ulu walaupun minoriti menjawat jawatan tinggi dalam parti untuk mewakili etnik mereka.”

“Mereka (Kumpulan 5) bercakap memang mudah, namun saya cabar, jika benar-benar menyokong BN mengapa tidak hadir dalam acara atau majlis SPDP-BN?.”

Ujar Tiong, sebagai pemimpin yang berdedikasi, ahli parti tidak harus menyempitkan fikiran, semangat perkauman dan gila kuasa.

Sementara itu, kira-kira 3,000 datang menghadiri majlis perasmian termasuk 57 tuai rumah. Seramai 2,000 ahli baharu juga direkrut pada majlis tersebut.

Source: Borneo Post

KUCHING: Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) will be behind all Barisan Nasional (BN) component partners in the coming 13th general election, said its deputy information chief Datuk Peter Minos.

Minos, who is PBB Opar chairman, said the party has been directed by its leaders to stand firm, particularly behind Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) which appeared to be facing rivalry from a group coined by the media as G5 on the candidacy for Mas Gading parliamentary constituency.

“PBB is firm. We stand with our component partners all the way. PBB Opar included,” he said in SMS communication from London yesterday.

According to him, PBB practices a culture that it must be honest and sincere with its partners in both good and bad times.

“It is this culture that has earned PBB its credibility and thereby getting real and true support and confidence from its members, supporters and partners,” he said.

“Even former rivals can be won over because of their trust in PBB. Led by a leader in Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud who has the brain, ability and wisdom, PBB’s culture gets more firm and entrenched,” he added.

Minos was responding to a ‘public confusion’ arising from a statement by G5 spokesman partyless Tasik Biru assemblyman Datuk Peter Nansian Ngusie that he was confident BN would once again pick Mas Gading incumbent MP Datuk Dr Tiki Lafe as its candidate in the coming election when SPDP had already recommended either Salcra deputy general manager Anthony Nogeh Gumbek or businessman Henry Harry Jinep.

One of the questions that arose after Nansian uttered his ‘confidence’ over the matter was – Will BN bulldoze SPDP, a BN component partner, out of the way, just to accommodate Dr Tiki who is partyless?

To this Minos reiterated that as far as PBB was concerned, the party, including PBB Opar, would be with SPDP all the way.

He said this fact and the common understanding among BN partners was manifested by the presence of PBB Tasik Biru members including its chairman John Nyigor at the BN Solidarity Dinner held by SPDP Mas Gading group at Bau Civic Centre on April 14.

The dinner saw the presence of SPDP president Tan Sri William Mawan Ikom and deputy Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing who did not hide his feeling when introducing Nogeh as the most likely candidate in Mas Gading. And then at the opening of the SPDP triennial general assembly (TGA) in Bintulu on March 18, Taib who is also state BN chairman made it clear that SPDP would get to recommend its candidates in all four of its parliamentary seats to the BN and that BN would endorse them.

Apart from Mas Gading, SPDP is also allocated Baram which is being held by senior vice-president (SVP) Datuk Jacob Dungau Sagan, Saratok (SVP Jelaing Mersat) and Bintulu (Tiong).

KUCHING, April 27 (Bernama) — The leaders of Sarawak Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties were today reminded not to get carried away by intra-party frictions as this could affect their decisions to put up winnable candidates for the coming general election (GE).

BN chairman and Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said party presidents should set aside differences that they may have with others leaders within their parties to pick the right persons who could deliver victory in the election.

“I don’t want your favourite persons to become candidates as all I want is winnable candidates,” he said during a dinner hosted by Sarawak Chief Minister, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud at the latter’s official residence here.

Apart from Taib, who is Sarawak BN chairman and Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) president, the dinner was also attended by presidents of the Sarawak United People’s Party, Datuk Seri Peter Chin; Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party, Tan Sri William Mawan Ikom and Parti Rakyat Sarawak’s Tan Sri Dr James Masing.

Najib said differences in opinions were bound to happen in a coalition with a long history such as the BN but he believed they could be sorted out in the family spirit. He said the long history had also put some people in BN to be losing sight of the very reason of the coalition’s existence, which was to serve the people well.

“By serving the people (well), they will have confidence to vote for us,” he said.

The Prime Minister said support from Sarawak was crucial in order for the BN to form the government after the coming election and thus enable the development agenda for the state to continue.

He said the opposition had yet to show that they were able to measure themselves up to what the BN had done all this while for the state.

“We want to do more for Sarawak but what we need is the mandate of the people (in the state in this coming election),” he added. Meanwhile, Taib who spoke earlier, told the state BN leaders to focus on highlighting the success of Sarawak under BN, rather than to be dragged into arguing about the opposition’s propaganda.

Being a person who had been long in politics and administering the state, he said the present opposition had failed to prove themselves as a better alternative for the people to manage the nation.

“I am old in this game and I believe none of the people in the opposition can chart out a common strategy for the (good of the) people,” he said. — BERNAMA

Source: Star Sarawak
Thursday, 19th April 2012

KUCHING: SPDP president Tan Sri William Mawan believes the political dust in Mas Gading will settle once the Prime Minister has chosen the candidate for the constituency.

He said the contention now was who was to be nominated. He said things looked dusty because of the Group of Five’s (G5) continued expression of discontent to win their battle.

Mawan, who is Social Development Minister, said the G5 had even claimed that some 1,000 had resigned from SPDP.

“They have fabricated things, trying to leverage over the other and trying to make us look like losing our support.

“At the same time they (G5) claimed themselves to be Barisan supporters, yet go against us although we are also in Barisan,” he said.

He said as far as SPDP was concerned, Barisan’s chances in Mas Gading were still good. The G5 could say anything they wanted, but SPDP was more focused on winning the war for Barisan.

“Right now, it’s just a tussle so I don’t want to quarrel with anybody.”

He also reiterated that except for Mas Gading, SPDP would retain all its incumbents.

He said it was either Anthony Nogeh or Henry Harry Jinep in Mas Gading.

When told that PRS secretary-general Datuk Wilfred Nissom had attended and spoken at a function organised by the G5 at Redeems Centre last Saturday, Mawan said it was not an uncommon sight.

“It is something that had happened from day one since the Group of Five had gone against me.

“In fact, when reporters asked me if PRS had interfered directly in SPDP’s affair by pulling the five to PRS headquarters here and PRS office in Kapit, I told the reporters that the PRS president is my friend and he might be helping me to solve my problem.

“Now, you see this thing happening again,” he said.

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