BN LEADING : Muhyiddin: Don't Listen To Rumours Opposition Has Won

KUCHING, April 16 (Bernama) -- Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has asked the people of Sarawak not to listen to rumours that the Opposition has won Saturday's state polls.
Muhyiddin said the rumours spread on the Internet were not true as voting would only be over at 5pm.
"There are rumours going around that Sarawak Barisan Nasional has lost and that the opposition will take over the state government.
"This is a lie...voting is still going on...votes have yet to be counted," he told a press conference at the Sarawak police headquarters here.
Instead, Muhyiddin said, he had received information that Opposition leader and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had left Sarawak to either London or the United States.
If he has won, obviously he will be around until the end (of polling day). Why has he left Sarawak so early.
"Anwar has delegated his duties to his polling chiefs purportedly because he is afraid something might happen," he said, adding that the rumours were the work of "desperate people".
"We have two more hours to go (before polling ends)...I urge the people not to be influenced by these rumours," he said.
He said these rumours spread by the opposition were cyber-warfare using reverse psychology to confuse voters.
"This is a dirty and desperate tactic. No official statements have been made but they already want to be ahead of the Election Commission," he said.
On the voting process, the deputy prime minister said voter turnout was good but hoped more would cast their ballots before polling closed.
"At longhouses... many voters came early to vote. As such, I hope the BN machinery will bring more people to vote," he said.
He said that many constituencies were seeing higher voter turnouts with the majority of voters in support of BN.
Opposition parties like PKR and PAS had no support in Sarawak whereas the DAP only in a few urban areas, he said.
"They have to import supporters from other areas...and they bring along thugs. Locals do not like this because they have been living in peace and harmony," he added.

tunku : it is just a cyber-warfare using reverse psychology to confuse voters.they don't want bn supporters to go out and vote.that's all. latest info i received is that BN had won 36seats, enough to form a simple majority government as at 5.30pm.