Abang Jo’s position as Satok rep safe — PBB Satok Youth

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KUCHING: The Youth wing of PBB Satok is confident that its branch chairman Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg will retain the Satok constituency in the state election which must be called by July next year.

Just about the only thing which concerns the Youth wing is the winning margin.

Its chief Irwan Zulkarnain Hasbie, when met by reporters at its new voters registration counter in Satok yesterday, said his boys were eager to help Abang Johari, who is also PBB deputy president, win by a larger vote majority then the last state election in 2006.

“In the last election, he only managed to get more than 2,000 vote majority. We hope that we can help him get more than 3,000 vote majority this time around,” he said, adding that it was not a tall order because the Youth wing had been active addressing many problems faced by the constituents.

The Youth chief also hoped that the Election Commission (EC) would expedite the process of registering selected members from the wing as the commission’s assistant registrars.

He said it would be easier for the Youth wing to carry out its voters registration campaign in the constituency if the applications for the appointment were successful.

“For our voters registration programme today, we engaged the service of a member from the main body of the Satok branch because our members are not yet appointed as assistant registrars,” he said.

He also disclosed that all Youth chiefs and secretaries of the 71 branches hoped to be appointed as assistant registrars.

“It was during the PBB Youth wing retreat in Sibu that all the Youth chiefs and secretaries applied to be assistant registrars because we want to answer the call made by our president Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud who wanted the Youth wing to shoulder the responsibility of registering new voters,” he said.

Touching on the Satok Youth wing’s voters registration programme, he said they expected to get no less than 500 new voters during the one-week programme.

He disclosed that there were not many youths in the Satok constituency due to the fact that many of them had moved to other constituencies.

“All of them followed their parents who resided outside the constituency … and when they are eligible to register as voters, most likely they will register at the constituencies where they are staying and not at where they originated,” he reasoned.