Who says Tee Keat is quitting ? Only that unmentionable fcuking paper !

Duo say Tee Keat not quitting

Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 6, 2009) : MCA information chief Heng Saei Kee and presidential council member Datuk Ti Lian Ker have denied claims that president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat would step down within days.

Both said that as far as they knew, Ong would not quit.

They were responding to claims by some quarters that Ong was quitting and had already removed personal belongings from his office in Wisma MCA.

Heng said she contacted MCA headquarters chief administrative director Lim Chin Hai on Saturday and received confirmation that Ong had not "cleared" his room.

On the contrary, she told Nanyang Siang Pau, the party chief had given instruction to move a gift Chinese painting from the Transport Ministry to his office in Wisma MCA.

"As such, talk that Ong Tee Keat has 'emptied his room', an indication that he is resigning from his party post, is not fair to both the president and the party," she said.

"I will discuss with secretary-general Datuk Wong Foon Meng on the how to deal with such negative talk about the president."

Ti said he was at the party headquarters the whole day on Friday but was not informed Ong's room was being vacated.

He said he did not think Ong would quit at this point in time and blamed the rumour on irresponsible individuals out to create confusion over the MCA leadership issue.

Datuk Ti Lian Ker

Several central committee (CC) members aligned to Ong also said they did not believe the president would quit in the immediate future.

One of them said it was unlikely Ong would relinquish his party post unless Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak removes him from the cabinet.

Another CC member said: "We have told Ong that although things were not going on smoothly for him as president, it had not reached the extent that he had to quit.

"We believe that if Ong quits at this crucial time, MCA's quota in the cabinet may be affected," the CC member said, adding that Ong was not the sole person to blame for the problems facing the party, as many central leaders, too, have to take the rap.

Meanwhile a CC member close to Ong said the infighting had left the president exhausted both physically and mentally but "he did not appear to want to call it a day in politics".

I met President yesterday and the response to this is , highly ridiculous crazy spin by that fcuking paper . In fact we discussed a lot of issues and one of the issue I brought up is how to reach out to the Mandarin readers to give them an accurate perspective of the latest political issues and news now that we cannot depend on the fcuking group that controls all the Chinese Media except for Oriental Daily and Kwong Wah Yit Poh from Penang .

My Proposals are as follows :

a) Have a Chinese/Mandarin version of the main news in the Star as a supplement like starsports / starmag / etc to be inserted into the newspaper .

b) Or have a tie up with Oriental Daily and Star distributors can distribute Oriental Daily as no news vendor who distributes that fcuking paper will distribute Oriental Daily .

c) This is purely a business /company tie up not requiring the approval from the MCA as in the team A , team B where MCA needs the approval to purhase Nanyang and China Press .

d) Oriental Daily can then be publishing all MCA news factually .

e ) I hope my proposals will be considered in view of the lies , half truths and spins news by that unmentionable paper .