In a Borneo Post Online report, the chairman of the Sarawak Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club Abdullah Saidol said Lim’s challenge to Adenan to refrain from using the BN symbol in the coming state election was snobbish and that Lim should mind his own business in West Malaysia.
He said Lim should be worried about his popularity as he was not able to deliver most of his election promises with increases in various tax and utility charges in the state.
Abdullah also said Lim was facing allegations of indiscriminately disposing of land in Penang and that Bumiputera communities there were frustrated and angry at being marginalised and victimised.
“I think it is the Penang people who should review their support for DAP before it is too late.”
“I do agree, we should a have a check and balance in managing a government but if DAP wants to continue to be a respectable and responsible opposition, the state DAP should start telling politicians like Lim to mind their own business in West Malaysia and people like Lim Kit Siang to retire,” he was quoted as saying.
On Monday, it was reported that Lim said Adenan should contest using the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) symbol rather than the BN symbol if he was indeed fighting for the rights of Sarawakians.
Lim said that since Adenan warned the Federal Government not to take advantage of Sarawak, he should not use the BN symbol.
The Bagan lawmaker also claimed Adenan would not dare do so as the latter was “only talking politics.”