KUCHING: Padungan assemblyman Dominic Ng Kim Ho will no longer be a “lone ranger” in the State Assembly.
The state PKR chief will have former Independent Ngemah assemblyman Gabriel Adit who has joined the party.
Adit, 58, officially joined PKR during a “Friends of PKR” dinner in Sibu on Saturday.
And the veteran assemblyman is not crossing over alone – he handed over 11,753 applications to PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at the event.
A happy Ng said: “(With Adit), I will get at least a seconder in any motion that I table.”
He described Adit, a former vice-president of the now defunct Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS), as an experienced politician and good speaker.
Ng said almost all the fresh applicants were Dayaks from the central region.
To prepare for the “influx”, he said the Sarawak PKR was in the midst of setting up division pro tem committees in 20 of the state’s 31 parliamentary constituencies.
“Our target is to have one division in all the parliamentary constituencies by year’s end,” he said.
Ng said Pakatan Rakyat leaders and MPs from the peninsula would visit Sarawak to help build up the party’s strength.
On the state PKR-DAP relationship, he said it had greatly improved and both sides were working in tandem.
He said the presence of Sarawak DAP chairman Richard Wong Ho Leng and his deputy Chiew Chiu Sing at the dinner proved this.
Of the 71 state assembly seats, the DAP holds six, PKR two and one Independent.
- The Star
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