‘BN not using Chong Wei’

BUTTERWORTH: The grand ceremony to welcome home Olympic silver medallist Lee Chong Wei in Bukit Mertajam on Wednesday in the midst of campaigning for the Permatang Pauh by-election has raised eyebrows here.

He was flown to the RMAF air base here in a private jet accompanied by Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaakob and then chauffeur-driven to his hometown in Berapit. Barisan Nasional candidate Arif Shah Omar Shah denied talk that the coalition was capitalising on Lee’s fame to fish for votes.

“It’s just a coincidence that he came back during the by-election. ***

“Since he had wanted to meet his family members in Berapit and Ismail Sabri was coming to Penang for functions, we decided to give him a proper escort to his hometown,” he said yesterday.[......]

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Lee Chong Wei, badminton single player, the Beijing Olympics Badminton man single silver medalist found himself “trapped” in the between PR and BN during his trip back to hometown. He is tired after the Olympic game and yet both parties put him in difficult position especially the Youth and Sports Ministry. “Hijacked” him by special plane flew directly from KL to Penang Air Force base in Butterworth without informed his family members beforehand. This is the correct way to do so? How about this family members? Never mind, let them worries? Come on, give this poor young man a break. (more…)