TAWAU, The support from members of the public toward Barisan Nasional (BN) is still very much alive and there is no reason why the ruling government could not recapture the Sri Tanjong seat in the coming next election.
The vice president of Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) and Minister of Resource Development and Information Technology, Datuk Dr. Yee Moh Chai said this on the seat which was lost by PBS to an opposition party in the last election.
He explained that one of the cause of the lost was the `swing’ nationally and Sri Tanjong felt the blunt of the swing but cited that there is no reason why BN could not recapture back giving the fact that PBS with the help from the other component parties has been serving the people there.
`But we need to readjust ourselves and understand better on why we didn’t get the full support of the voters there’, he added.
Yee said PBS has once being the opposition for almost a decade but has now moved with the ranks within the government and they know how the people feel and think and can satisfy the voters’ need but within the framework of serving the people as members of the government.
`Our present leadership at Sri Tanjong are working hard and closely with the grassroots and we knows what is required but changes takes time for changes for demands and requests to satisfy the people’, he stressed over the party in Sri Tanjong under the leadership of Fung Len Fui.
Yee explained they had done the needed post mortem over the failure to defend the seat and had set the objective in improving oneself in all constituencies including Sri Tanjong.
`This is the fight PBS has been fighting for, our basis to serve the people as this is the status and this status is our responsibility and we are fully aware of it’, he added.
Yee concluded that the interest of the people will continue to be preserved and protected.
He was in the district last Friday to visit hawkers at Tanjong market and Xin Ann market where he and his entourage received a warm response where a number of problems were also highlighted to him.
Yee also visited the district’s Hot Spring Old Folks’ Home where he distributed ang pows and oranges to 36 residents there.
Among those present during the visit were a number of PBS state leaders and deputy ministers.
15/01/2009
Caption: Yee meeting with a hawker at Tanjong market. Pic 1
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