by TODAYonline
Published at 11:50 am, April 27, 2011
Independent candidate for Sengkang West SMC, Mr Ooi Boon Ewe is missing an assentor and frantically trying to get someone before the noon deadline. He said someone was supposed to turn up but was a no-show.
“Sengkang West! My people are supposed to be here, but I don’t know where they are!” he was quoted as saying.
With his departure, there will not be a three-cornered fight for Sengkang West SMC.
Mr Ooi is seen going up to strangers and asking if they live in the Sengkang-Ponggol estates and if they’d support him. He seems visibly agitated.
He has since entered the Nomination hall as deadline closes.
by TODAYonline
Published at 11:21 am, April 27, 2011
Big drama surrounding would-be independent candidate, a Muslim convert named Muhammad Ali (Zeng Guo Yang) at Tao Nan. His name was up on the board but he tore up his nomination papers and left in a huff.
He told TODAY cryptically: “They fixed me up, you know who, and now I can’t stand for the elections.”
by TODAYonline
Published at 3:10 pm, April 26, 2011
Independent candidate Andrew Kuan told TODAY that he would not be contesting in the General Election and will not be submitting his nomination forms tomorrow.
He was supposed to contest in the Joo Chiat SMC and would have stood against PAP candidate Charles Chong, and possibly the Workers’ Party’s Mr Yee Jenn Jong.
Mr Kuan said: “I do not want to be involved in a three-cornered fight. I spoke to my wife about it and my family is relieved that I will not be contesting in the General Election. I have not consulted any Opposition parties on my decision.”
by TODAYonline
Published at 12:55 am, April 26, 2011
Remove the Goods and Services Tax on rice, flour and sugar. Petrol and diesel prices should be government-controlled. Bring back trial by jury.
These were some of the proposals Mr Ooi Boon Ewe (picture), 70, who plans to contest Sengkang West SMC, has put forward in his election manifesto titled “Staying Together, Moving Ahead”, which has a familiar ring to it because it was the People’s Action Party’s slogan during the 2006 General Election. Continue reading ‘How Ooi Boon Ewe plans to take Sengkang West’
