Ti: There was evilness in the air during CC meeting

Tuesday October 20, 2009
Ti: There was evilness in the air during CC meeting
KUALA LUMPUR: The MCA central committee meeting last Thursday was the most fiery, rough and crude meeting that the party ever had, said CC member Datuk Ti Lian Ker.
In a hard-hitting blog entry yesterday, Ti wrote how there was “evilness in the air” during the Oct 15 meeting.
He described how some other CC members, had, during the course of the meeting, spoke in an unbecoming tone when addressing president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat, without even bothering to seek permission to speak.
“People who used to boot-lick suddenly showed their ugly faces. They have no respect for the chair of the president.
“The central committee meeting was the most fiery, rough and crude one we ever had. Individuals who were beneficiaries of the president’s office turned into vultures seeking for dead bodies and the intended corpse was the president’s body,” he said on his blog http://tilianker.blogspot.com/ yesterday.
He added that the siege from within – surrounding and attacking the president – was too much for some of the central committee to stomach.
“People who were known to be in the other camp could not stomach the evilness in the air. Some came to the president’s rescue not out of goodwill but strictly out of good conscience,” he said.
Ti said the central committee members were morally obliged to resign together with Ong based on the outcome of the party’s extraordinary general meeting (EGM).
He added that the presidential council and central committee members who had pushed for the dismissal and subsequent suspension of former deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek, must resign to account for the rejection of their decision based on the outcome of the EGM’s second resolution.
During the Oct 10 EGM, the central delegates voted to reinstate Dr Chua as a party member.
“The president may have spoken publicly but that does not mean the central committee or presidential council had been absolved of their collective responsibility,” said Ti.
He added that Ong had articulated on the spirit of collective responsibility regarding the decision of the disciplinary action over Dr Chua.
Ti said the rightful status of Dr Chua must be established by making reference to the Registrar of Societies.
“The president abstained from voting at the central committee meeting as he was of the opinion that the legal status of Dr Chua ought to be clarified,” he said.
He said Ong and Dr Chua commanded more than 90% of the total number of central delegates’ votes they gathered at the EGM.
“Any solution towards settling the quandary of the party now requires political consensus.
“Thus the third force is only marginal; and is not morally or politically able to take over the party based on the central committee support alone, consisting of people who have vested personal interests at heart,” he said.