looks like internal conflicts brewing

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Ng Teck Siong: Kenneth Jeyaretnam in a hurry for power

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New Reform chief rapped
By Kor Kian Beng

A MAN in a hurry for power - that was how Reform Party's ousted chairman Ng Teck Siong described Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam, who took over as the party's secretary-general on Monday.
'He's in a hurry for power, so I'll just leave it to him. He has been saying he wants to be the secretary-general. What can I say? Let time prove it,' Mr Ng said last night.

Last Monday, the Reform Party announced the appointment of Mr Jeyaretnam as secretary-general, Mr Edmund Ng as interim chairman and Mr James Teo Kian Chye as interim treasurer.

In a statement, it also said that Mr Ng, 68, resigned as chairman after a no-confidence vote against him at a central executive committee (CEC) meeting on Sunday.

Opposition sources said that Mr Ng - a long-time ally of Mr Jeyaretnam's late father and Reform Party founder J.B. Jeyaretnam - fell out with the new leaders as he was slow in appointing a new secretary-general.

The post was held by the elder Mr Jeyaretnam before he died of heart failure last September aged 82.

Asked if he was ousted because of his slowness in growing the party membership, Mr Ng said: 'In seven months, the party had been getting new people. So how could I not be doing things right?'

But he confirmed that he quit the party due to differences with its new leaders. He said that three other CEC members had also quit. And at least one other party member - his blogger son Ng E-Jay, 32 nick name moonwu, dogtracker, thebonerman, communist etc, who joined just last month - has also resigned. (words in red were extra from that poster)
On his immediate plans, Mr Ng said he may join another party, form a new one, or stand as an independent candidate at the next elections due by 2012. He has also been invited to join other parties, he said, but declined to name them.

Mr Jeyaretnam, 50, a hedge fund manager, could not be reached yesterday. But when contacted on Monday about leadership changes, he said the CEC 'just felt that they needed somebody of higher profile to take the party forward'.

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RP's latest boss, ken should meet JJ and his long lost father, have a open-heart dialogue/discussion and clarify all hidden doubts and mistrusts.

hearsays, stories and rumours are good only as a general guideline but proving it oneself should be the order of the day.

we are all now entering into a phase of fast IT where infos are easily at the fingertips. then again, how authentic are those infos gathered.

now that this clash of the leaders in RP, confidence and credibility are once again put at stake. that's would do the opp clans no good and only benefits the LEEgime further. i think the biggest set back is our own EGO. we just cannot accept being embarrassed. everyone wants their points to be accepted and right and so the conflicts will continue

the long lost father/son team could now be contemplating to set up another CLAN to add to the disarray of weak opp clans. what is the point then? opp disciples are all endangered species. with such drama taking place, more would gladly extinct and exit themselves from the opp families of kungfu exponents who thought they could unite and fight against the famiLee and overthrow the LEEgime in the next wu-lin GE tournament.

it seems that such goal is drifting further and further. it would be even harder now to win any provinces.

MISUNDERSTANDING SHOULD BE RESOLVED AND NOT PRESUMED WHO'S RIGHT, WHO'S WRONG just like that from forums, rumours and "weird researches".

just like BUDDHISM, see the TRUTH and now attached to what that is written, spoken or even seen. only when one see, hear and face it himself from the horses' mouths , then such presumption can be confirmed.

opp clans should behave more mature and not like child's play. their mission to IMPROVE LIVES OF PEASANTS and not play of wet mud after a heavy storm.

the earlier they can come to terms with the real BIGGER PICTURE and setting aside egoistic or prejudiced feelings, the better they can resolved their differences and strive to work in unity for the great goal.

if everyone's keeping mum about their inner disputes and indifferences, this will not augur well for the GREAT REVOLUTION TO OVERTHROW THE PAPS.