Lets recall what Soi Lek tells Tiong Lai

Don’t make me your scapegoat, Soi Lek tells Tiong Lai

By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 – MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek (pic, left) today warned Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai (pic, right) not to make him (Dr Chua) the scapegoat for his (Liow’s) own failure to get the remaining central committee (CC) members to resign.

Dr Chua dared Liow to hold an EGM if he was confident that the party members would support a fresh election.

“If he wants to go for an EGM to call for a fresh poll, by all means, he can do it. I called an EGM to restore my own self and to pass a vote of no-confidence against the president but I never made so much noise and I never gave any excuses.

“I also said that when I want to resign, I will resign, at my own timetable and not at the timetable laid down by Liow.

“And if Liow is so confident that everybody wants fresh polls, then, by all means, do it. If you are so confident of getting support from people, why are you always pushing it to Chua Soi Lek? Why are you not pushing it to Ong Tee Keat?

“Please do not make me the scapegoat for your inability to get 21 central delegates to resign,” was the message he wanted reporters at MCA headquarters here to convey to Liow.

Dr Chua recently announced that only 13 central committee members had resigned, eight short of the 21 needed to pave way for fresh polls as stipulated by the party constitution but revealed that the remaining CC members were expected to resign after the Chinese New Year.

Under the party’s constitution, a fresh poll must be held within 30 days if 21 of the 31 elected central committee members resigned.

The problem with Liow, according to Dr Chua, was that he was arrogant and expected everybody to follow his roadmap.

“You see the problem with Liow Tiong Lai is that he behaves like he is the president of MCA. Whatever he says, all of us must follow.

“When he met me, I told him very frankly that, politics being politics, if you say ‘do something’, then people who do not support you will do a different thing. And we do not have to follow the roadmap laid down by Liow Tiong Lai,” he said.

Liow yesterday urged Dr Chua to resign because he believed that this would speed up the election process because the deputy president’s supporters would follow suit.