Samarahan PBB boss YB Karim shortlists 3 candidates

Pemimpin PBB paling senior di Kota Samarahan iaitu Menteri Muda Perumahan dan Belia YB Abdul Karim Bin Rahman Hamzah telah menyatakan bahawa 3 nama telah dipilih untuk pencalonan PBB/BN untuk kerusi parlimen Kota Samarahan.  Beliau menyatakan bahawa seorang adalah dari tempatan.  Kemungkinan besar seorang tempatan itu adalah pemimpin PBB paling senior di kota samarahan selepas dirinya dan YB Muara Tuang iaitu timbalan ketua PBB cawangan Muara Tuang Hamzah Bin Ibrahim. Kalau ikut seniority dalam parti PBB di kawasan samarahan beliaulah orangnya.  Seorang lagi adalah luar PBB iaitu pegawai daerah Asajaya Rubiah Binti Haji Wang.

Kalau kata YB Karim seorang dari 3 nama adalah tempatan maka 2 lagi nama adalah orang luar.  Sememangnya calon 'favourite' dan yang didesak oleh akar umbi adalah 'billionaire' Dato Sri Abu Bekir Taib. Beliau dikehendaki oleh akar umbi kerana boleh memberi kesinambungan selepas adiknya Dato Sri Sulaiman Taib.  Kemungkinan besar seorang lagi calon 'luar' adalah sepupu Dato Sri Abu Bekir iaitu Dato Ahmad Bin Dato Seri Ibrahim.  Beliau telah 'berjalan' di samarahan untuk beberapa bulan.  Malah beliau telah mengadakan majilis 'tepung tawar' di asajaya dalam samarahan.

Pengakhirnya YB Karim telah melepaskan 'rahsia' apabila beliau telah menyatakan kepada pemberita bahawa
"I think a local will be picked'.  

PBB to submit 3 names for Kota Samarahan, says Abdul Karim

Posted on April 17, 2012, Tuesday

ASAJAYA: Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) has shortlisted three individuals as Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate for the Kota Samarahan parliamentary seat in the 13th general election which is just around the corner.

PBB supreme council member Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said one of them was a local.

He said their names would be given to the top leaders of BN for them to evaluate and choose.

“For Kota Samarahan parliamentary seat, three names including one woman, has been shortlisted and I don’t think there will be any problem if one of them is chosen because I believe the other two will continue to support the chosen one,” said Karim when met after the 1Malaysia netbook presentation ceremony here yesterday.

He said this when asked if any local-born from the area made the list. The incumbent MP for Kota Samarahan Dato Sri Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib recently announced his desire not to seek re-election.

Although refusing to reveal their names, Karim, who is also Asajaya assemblyman, felt that the local-born would be picked for the seat.

“I think a local will be picked…that is what I think.”

Currently, rumours have it that the local female is Asajaya district officer Rubiah Wang.

Meanwhile, Karim who is also Assistant Housing Minister, said BN would not face any difficulty in retaining the Kota Samarahan seat which is considered a ‘white area’ though some people had been seen making their rounds there.

“Many people from both the opposition parties and BN including aspiring independents will come to introduce themselves to the villagers,” he said.

Overall, he said the coming election would be a tense one, though not in Sarawak, because based on the last election, BN won with a big majority.

He did not deny, however, that BN might face problems if internal conflicts besieging some of its component parties were not resolved.