KUCHING, AUG. 1- Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) former deputy secretary-general, Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh, is in no hurry of getting the Registrar of Societies’ (ROS) to decide on the disputes that erupted since the last party election in 2011.
While he personally hoped that ROS would decide sooner rather than later to end all the controversies surrounding the party over the last two years, he said the authority should be left alone to come to a final decision.
“We are not (anxiously waiting). Of course, there ought to be a conclusion to this chapter but we will wait for the decision,” he told reporters when met after handing over minor project grants totalling over RM300,000 to 32 organisations, here, today.
Wong, who is also Sarawak Finance Minister II and Local Government and Community Development Minister, has been at loggerheads with SUPP president Tan Sri Peter Chin Fah Kui since the run-up to the party election in 2011.
Prior to the election held during the party’s triennial delegates conference (TDC) in December that year, Wong was strongly tipped to win the president post uncontested, replacing Tan Sri Dr George Chan, until Chin submitted his nomination in the 11th hour.
The situation worsened when Wong, together with several other elected representatives in the party, decided to stay out of the party election by claiming there had been irregularities in 14 branch elections that were not addressed ahead of the TDC.
Chin assumed the post of president uncontested, but several SUPP members decided to file their complaints to ROS on the irregularities, which led to ROS issuing two show-cause letters on June 6, this year.
Wong is also not on good terms with the party’s central working committee for defying their decision that all the members should not accept any government appointment following their poor performance in the 2011 state elections.
– BERNAMA
