SIBU: Wanita PBB members must work hard to ensure overall voter-turnout in the coming state election is at least 80 per cent to give Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem a strong mandate.
Its deputy chief Datuk Fatimah Abdullah, who made the call yesterday, said it could be done by staying close to the people and be prompt in helping those in need.
“We want the percentage of voter-turnout to be at least 80 per cent and to vote for Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem, so that he will be able to continue resolving outstanding issues,” she told reporters after closing a seminar organised by Wanita PBB’s Supreme Council at MMB hall here.
Fatimah, who is also Minister of Welfare, Women and Family Development, stressed it was crucial to ensure popularity votes for Adenan be translated into actual votes.
Adenan, who had introduced no fewer than 50 initiatives, had touched the hearts of the people, especially at grassroots level; thus upping his (Adenan) popularity, she added.
“But we want these popularity votes to be translated into actual votes. That is why we urge voters to give full support to CM,”
On the party’s election operation rooms, Fatimah said they were set up at state and branch levels. But in her constituency Dalat, she said there was even an operation room at the unit level. She said all operation rooms were now up and running.
Meanwhile, she said there were 569,832 male voters in the state, versus 571,462 female voters. Female voters aged 45 years and above numbered 320,597.
On the training, she explained it was to prepare PBB women leaders for the coming polls.
“We have formed ‘Skuad Sayang’, or women’s bureau, in some places to do welfare work, to register new voters, and to recruit members. We want to always be close to the people and become their facilitators for any welfare assistance, including visiting the sick.”
Among those present were Nangka assemblyman Dr Annuar Rapaee and political secretary to the Chief Minister, Dayang Raoyah.