During his “walkabout” at the Rivervale Plaza in Punggol East yesterday (13 Jan), Dr Koh Poh Koon, the PAP’s candidate for Punggol East SMC, told the media that he has identified day-to-day issues like cost of living and adequacy of infrastructure as among top concerns.
However, he said, “The residents have to be practical and realistic – that you must choose to vote the person who can do the work for you. I think it’s a fallacy to believe that you can have the best of both worlds – choose the person to make a statement but hope that the other person who’s voted out is going to be having all the resources, all the authority, to get the work done for you.”
In other words, he is telling the residents that they can’t expect PAP to get work done for them if they vote an opposition MP into Parliament. Full story
