KUCHING, April 26 — Incumbent Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem urged voters here tonight not to believe opposition parties’ claim that they only wanted to deny Barisan Nasional a supermajority in the state election.
The Sarawak BN chairman insisted this was a ploy to convince voters that supporting the opposition parties would not result in a change of government.
“Don’t be fooled by this talk by Lim Kit Siang about reducing our majority of two thirds, because if people overreact to this one, then you might end up having them be the government,” he told reporters here tonight.
“This is just a ploy so that people think there’s no harm in voting for them, and that they would get the best of both worlds. But then their aim is to form the next government, and if that happens, we will be governed by parties from west Malaysia.”
He added that if the opposition is not looking to form the state government, they would not have fielded as many candidates as they did.
Separately, Adenan also said rivals were trying to claim credit for decisions he made in the interest of the people as chief minister.
He said Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian had claimed responsibility for halting a proposed project at the Ulu Trusan forest reserve when it was the former who made the decision to do so.
Adenan added that this was also the case with the Baram Dam that he called off.
“Baram dam, I was the one who decided to cancel it. But I never got the credit for it,” he said.
The hydroelectric Baram dam was proposed during the administration of former Sarawak chief minister Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud, who is now the state’s governor.
Adenan last year announced that the state government decided to call off the project due to opposition from affected natives and other residents.
