Speaking to The Borneo Post here Saturday, Tegas Tusen, 66 (DAP) and Rusli Eyong, 41, (PKR), said they had lost confidence in their parties and decided to support BN.
Rusli, who had been PKR Serian Youth leader since 2008, added that there would be major shifts in political alliance to BN here, which he expected to occur anytime before the polling day on May 5, while dismissing the opposition’s claim that there would be a toss-up between the ruling BN and PR in the constituency.
“Some 400 more members of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) from Kampung Taee in Serian parliamentary constituency have quit the party and applied to join Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP),” he said.
The group, he claimed, followed the footsteps of more than 200 PKR and DAP members from Tebedu who had done the same thing a week before nomination day.
Awang Landon, incumbent MP Datuk Richard Riot Jaem’s private secretary and chief operations officer accepted the membership application forms from the group’s representative, Matthew Jusses, who was also Serian DAP’s chief operations officer for the election.
Present to witness the event were PBB leaders from Tebedu and Kedup, Dr Simon Sindang and Gabriel Kajeh respectively.
Mattew said they were convinced that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak would be able to take the country’s development to greater heights.
“Datuk Najib does not make empty promises but fulfils pledges, more so for the benefit of the low-income people in the rural who most appreciate it, but Pakatan Rakyat representatives in Sarawak did not fulfil the many promises it had made,” he said.
Former PKR member David Chaipin, 51, from Kampung Baru said he was a founding member of Serian PKR and had seen PKR’s influence in Mambong and here waning.
Tebedu SUPP branch chairman Manjah Lesis, 62, from Kampung Tepoi said more Bidayuhs from villages in Tebedu were convinced that only BN could help them.
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