Chow Kon Yeow: 曹观友

The Chinese media gave very prominent coverage to my press conference statement on Gerakan phantom members in Penang.

Dr Teng Hock Nan was asked to comment by Guang Ming Daily and he was quoted as saying, “there is nothing to comment… Gerakan does not need to manufacture phantom members…after all this is not election year.”

Just read between the lines, “this is not election year”, well Dr Teng is saying, “if this is election year we will surely manufacture many phantom members.”

As to the allegation of phantom voters, there is no rebuke from Dr Teng.

Please help to look out for phantom voters in your area.

Phantom members and voters are nothing new in Malaysian politics.

Yesterday, I saw a stack of letters at my office and found out that these are letters returned to the sender because the mails cannot be delivered to the address.

On examination, I noted that the sender of these letters was the Parti Gerakan Penang headquarters and the postman must have wrongly returned those letters to the DAP instead of the rightful receipent.

All the 14 letters were sent to a single address along Jalan Tanjong Tokong.

I think all of them are phantom members of the local Gerakan branch. I am more interested to find out whether they are also phantom voters planted by the Gerakan in the previous elections or for the coming general elections.

The DAP had in the past accused the Gerakan of manufacturing phantom voters in their constituencies. One classic example was found in the address of Dr Teng Hock Nan where about ten persons with different surnames and ethnic background were found to have registered as voters. Another one was in Rifle Range Flats where more than 30 persons were found registered as voters in a tiny cubicle unit.

Gerakan had remained silence over the DAP’s exposure.

Well, with the finding of these 14 letters, I think Gerakan is still manufacturing phantom members and voters so that someone like Dr Koh Tsu Koon, Dr Teng Hock Nan could be returned as Gerakan state leaders and to elected offices like the Chief Minister.