Jeff Ooi calls for stern action against PKR leaders

Who is lying ? Jeff Ooi says Tan was not happy that the recommendation by his party for him to become the chairman of the Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP)

Tan Tee Beng says :“For positions in Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBA), Penang Development Corporation (PDA) and investPenang, PKR has to beg,” Tan said, adding that he was nominated by PKR to become a PBA director but was sidelined by Lim for constantly speaking out against him.

Chairman of PBAPP or PBAPP Director ? Which is which ? Which is the correct version ?

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng's chief of staff Jeff Ooi wants PKR to take stern action against its members who, he claimed, were attempting to break up the Pakatan Rakyat coalition in the state.

Ooi, who is the member of parliament for Jelutong, said he hoped that PKR would take some affirmative action to resolve the issue relating to its members making personal attacks on Lim.

"I hope they (PKR) can make a decisive judgment on this issue so that the entire Penang state can move on under the Pakatan coalition," he told reporters in Penang today.

He was responding to a report today that the Penang DAP-PKR tiff had worsened after another PKR MP Tan Tee Beng (Nibong Tebal), threw his support behind fellow party leader Zahrain Mohd Hashim (Bayan Baru MP) by labelling Lim as a leader without class.

Ooi said Tan and Zahrain shared the same problem of political frustration for having made their negative statements through the media. But Jeff , can you please answer to all the issues brought by by Tan and Zahrain ? Why are you people ie LGE and you deflecting all the issues brought up by them to one of political frustration . On Tan is the director/chairman of PBAPP and on Zahrain is the management of the state-owned Bukit Jambul Golf and Country !

"This is a classic case of political frustration. When they do not get whatever they desire, they start making noise," he said.

He explained that Tan was not happy that the recommendation by his party for him to become the chairman of the Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP) and his intervention in the tender process of the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) to get his relative a shophouse lot were not fulfilled. Tan had earlier mentioned that Lim had so far not even dared to answer any of Zahrain's damning allegations but instead chose to hide behind Deputy Chief Minister I Mansor Othman's ‘samping’ or underneath his "sarong " ?

"We cannot accept all the recommendations and endorsements which have been made. We must consider putting the people first," he said.

However, he said, the Pakatan coalition would make contingency plans for the Bayan Baru and Nibong Tebal constituencies to maintain the people's support for the party.

Earlier, deputy chief minister II P Ramasamy welcomed the decision of PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim to refer Zahrain to the party disciplinary committee.

"There is a proper forum to raise the issue, especially during the Pakatan meeting, and making it public is not the idea of Pakatan," he said.

Last week, Zahrain said Lim was a dictator and a chauvinist and communist-minded while yesterday Tan expressed his support for Zahrain.

Tan went a step further by hitting out at his party leaders in the state government for failing to assert their position in the state Pakatan Rakyat.

He even warned that PKR would end up with nothing if the leaders were weak and continued to bend to Lim's will.