Ghani Othman takes Gelang Patah fight to Singapore

BY MOHD FARHAN DARWIS
May 02, 2013

Abdul Ghani is taking his choosing debate to Singapore today. File pic

JOHOR BARU, May 2 With usually 3 days left in the race fast branch opposite his favour, Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman will take his Barisan Nasional (BN) debate for Gelang Patah to Singapore today, likely to canvas for votes from Johor folk residing as well as operative in the island state.

The caretaker mentri besar, who is opposite DAP domestic heavyweight Lim Kit Siang for the urban, Chinese-majority seat, is expected to make use of the little of his changed debate hours for the lightning outing to Singapore for an unknown function.

A source reliable the outing with The Malaysian Insider final night as well as suggested which Abdul Ghani, along with the group of selected journalists, will leave on the bus to Singapore during 6am from Bukit Indah in Nusajaya, the state seat underneath Gelang Patah.

Ghani is going to Singapore. We usually invited limited media, the source pronounced when contacted.

Other sources who will attend with Abdul Ghanis delegation also reliable the outing though pronounced they were not wakeful the inlet of the caretaker mentri besars function in Singapore.

Instructions usually pronounced to accumulate in Bukit Indah during 6am... once you arrive, usually then you will know what the programme is, the single source said.

Once done, Abdul Ghani is scheduled to attend the Program Kembara Budaya function during the Johor Baru Tengah Municipal Council (MPJBT) in Taman University, Skudai, during 11.30am.

According to the January inform in Singapores The Straits Times, about 400,000 of the little the single million Malaysians ! vital ov erseas are in Singapore, with most between them from Johor.

But along with those residing in southern Thailand, Brunei as well as Kalimantan, Malaysians in Singapore were not permitted to opinion by post in Election 2013, forcing them to lapse to their home country this May 5 to cast their ballots.

Abdul Ghani as well as Lim are slugging it out in Gelang Patah in what has been described as the mother of all battles in the single of the countrys stiffest electoral contests to date.

While Lim has brought with him the competence as well as machine of the DAPs national debate to lead the oppositions conflict on Johor, BNs counterclaim of the southern outpost has appeared to be lethargic during best.

But Lims interest often looks sound between Gelang Patahs Chinese voters, who form 52 per cent of the 106,864-strong electorate.

While the 72-year-old Lim pushes for the win in the MCA stronghold, observers have pronounced which the maestro personality has been getting the cold accepting during his walkabouts in Malay-majority areas.

PKR ran in Gelang Patah in the past two ubiquitous elections, though lost both times to Johor Wanita MCA arch Tan Ah Eng. Tan kept the seat in Election 2008 with the infancy of 8,851 votes, the smaller infancy than the strenuous 31,666-vote infancy in 2004.