Loss of Aljunied team will dent quality of Govt: SM
Goh
THE quality of Singapore's government will take a hit if
Aljunied GRC residents vote out the People's Action Party (PAP)
team, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong warned on Saturday night.
The five-member PAP team groups Foreign Minister George Yeo,
Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for
Finance and Transport Lim Hwee Hwa, Senior Minister of State
(Foreign Affairs) Zainal Abidin Rasheed, Madam Cynthia Phua and new
face Ong Ye Kung, who is widely tipped as a potential office
holder.
Noting the difficulties that many governments abroad face in
recruiting good quality people to become Cabinet Ministers and
office holders, Mr Goh warned Singaporeans that they would lose not
only a foreign minister who has been able to foster good relations
with neighbouring countries, but also Singapore's first woman
minister, Mrs Lim, and a potential Speaker of Parliament, Mr
Zainal.
Speaking at the PAP Marine Parade GRC rally at Paya Lebar, he
also dismissed the Workers' Party's (WP) call for a First World
Parliament, describing the opposition party as a 'koyok man'
selling pills that do not work.
He urged voters not to be seduced or swindled by them. 'They
want quantity but if they can't sing, it's not a good choir,' he
said.
In his 35-minute speech, Mr Goh also disclosed that his former
principal private secretary Tan Jee Say, who is contesting in
Holland-Bukit Timah GRC as a Singapore Democratic Party (SDP)
candidate, left the civil service to join the private sector as Mr
Goh did not think he could make it as a permanent secretary.
ya ya, sm goh's head the first to get dented first. 
