{"id":19888,"date":"2017-10-24T18:11:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19888"},"modified":"2017-10-24T22:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T14:03:41","slug":"michael-tiang-reply-to-johnical-rayong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19888","title":{"rendered":"Michael Tiang: Reply to Johnical Rayong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDatuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, the BN Chairman was clear in his opening speech during the Pre-14th General Election closed door meeting held on last Saturday at Putera World Trade Centre, that all winnable candidates must be from BN component parties and they are to fill the seats and to win the seats for BN,\u201d Michael Tiang, a political secretary to the Chief Minister of Sarawak in replying to United People\u2019s Party (UPP) Youth Chief Dr. Johnichal Rayong\u2019s earlier remarks in the press that Najib\u2019s speech was meant to open up the BN seats to any winnable candidates so long they can win seats for BN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was not a scintilla of confusion as to where the winnable candidates are from during the whole meeting on last Saturday. The reason is very simple &#8211;\u00a0 after all it was a BN closed door meeting exclusively for the 13 BN component parties to attend and Najib\u2019s message was also meant for the BN component parties only.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tiang added that, \u201ceven Rayong could have overheard Najib\u2019s message delivered on last Saturday in some way, but I can assure him that the message was not meant for him and his party. So please don\u2019t misquote Najib\u2019s message, if one didn\u2019t attend the meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNevertheless our Party President Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian had on several occasions stressed that Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP) would always welcome UPP and its members to come back to SUPP and even to become the candidates for the seats allocated to SUPP in BN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed18.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19889\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed18.jpg\" width=\"837\" height=\"1117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed18.jpg 837w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed18-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed18-767x1024.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDatuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, the BN Chairman was clear in his opening speech during the Pre-14th General Election closed door meeting held on last Saturday at Putera World Trade Centre, that all winnable candidates must be from BN component parties and they are to fill the seats and to win the seats for BN,\u201d Michael Tiang, a political secretary to the Chief Minister of Sarawak in replying to United People\u2019s Party (UPP) Youth Chief Dr. Johnichal Rayong\u2019s earlier remarks in the press that Najib\u2019s speech was meant to open<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19888\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19890,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19888\/revisions\/19890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}