LDP Tanjong Kapor division chairman, Datuk Teo Chee Kang, said, the letter of termination of his post as the secretary general, signed by the party president Datuk Liew Vui Keong, was delivered to his residence by the party assistant executive secretary at around 8.30pm on Tuesday.
“As leadership change is brewing in the party, I’m shocked by the termination of my position as the secretary-general of the party,” he said in a press conference called by LDP deputy secretary general, deputy party president cum Api-Api division chairman Senator Datuk Chin Su Phin and Teo himself here yesterday.
Present at the press conference were 27 of the 34 supreme council members and 17 out of 29 division chairmen.
Liew announced the sacking of Teo and the suspension of the Women movement chief, Nancy Lim, with immediate effect, on Tuesday.
Teo said that Liew’s statement to the press on Tuesday contained a threat to other supreme council members, warning them to abide by the understanding in the supreme council, which was to support the existing president and deputy president for another term.
“In the written statement of Datuk president, he indicated that if the supreme council were to depart from that understanding, they should resign en bloc without having to meet the same fate as their ex secretary-general. This, I think, is a flagrant disregard for the spirit of democracy.”
Teo declined to comment on the legitimacy of his termination as the party’s secretary-general, or whether such power was exercised by the president judiciously, in accordance with the party’s constitution.
However, Teo vehemently denied the allegations by Liew that the reason for his termination was his failure to carry out the instructions of the supreme council and to abide by the decision of the supreme council.
Teo stressed that he was not belittling the sanctity of the supreme council or the council’s resolution when he said that the resolution could not override the party constitution.
“I merely pointed out the fact that the supreme council resolution cannot override the party constitution. For example, you can have an act of parliament passed by the parliament, but if that act of parliament contravene provisions in the Federal Constitution, or in other words, if it is ultra vires the Federal Constitution, then that act of parliament can be declared null and void,” Teo reasoned.
Teo said his future now rest upon all party members and grassroots of LDP.
“I believe in LDP, despite the challenges we are facing, despite the crisis we are facing currently, I believe, and I still hold firmly to that belief that democracy will prevail,” Teo said.
Also present was LDP vice president, Datuk Pang Yuk Ming.
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