NIBONG TEBAL: Pakatan Harapan (PH) is confident that UMNO members will vote for the Unity Government candidate Dr Joohari Ariffin within the Sungai Bakap state by-election on July 6.
PH Election Director for the by-election, Datuk Dr Mohamad Abdul Hamid stated that primarily based on surveys and constructive responses obtained throughout the marketing campaign, they imagine that the votes of Barisan Nasional (BN)-UMNO members will favour the Unity Government candidate.
“We have been working along with the BN-UMNO equipment in eight polling districts and the responses have been very constructive, which supplies us the benefit that by way of votes, they (BN-UMNO) have returned to the Unity Government.
“Based on these developments, Insya-Allah, we see that we will obtain success on July 6,“ he instructed reporters after the launch of a Dr Joohari’s marketing campaign occasion at Taman Tasek Indah, Simpang Ampat, right here final evening.
With per week of campaigning left, Mohamad, who can be Penang PKR Leadership Council (MPN) deputy chairman, stated that the Unity Government equipment will proceed to accentuate their marketing campaign efforts within the mission for a victory for the PH candidate and reclaim the Sungai Bakap seat from Perikatan Nasional (PN).
Recently, PN candidate Abidin Ismail claimed that UMNO members will preserve the wave of vote switching to the coalition within the by-election.
The Nibong Tebal PAS vp claimed that the wave could possibly be seen, and that some (UMNO members) had expressed that they nonetheless assist PN.
Joohari and Abidin are in a straight struggle within the by-election, which is being held following the demise of the incumbent, Nor Zamri Latiff, on May 24, on account of abdomen irritation.
