PUTRAJAYA: DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke has described the pressure to have Lim Guan Eng lead the Penang government again as mere rumours.
He said DAP has never received any memorandum or letter from any assemblymen regarding the matter.
"There was no insistence, it was just a rumour ... I don't know where it came from.
"It is said that there are three assemblymen, but I have never received any memorandum or letter from any assemblymen," he said at a press conference here on Wednesday (May 3).
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It was reported that there was a push within DAP to oust Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow after the state election.
All of Penang DAP's backbenchers had asserted that they are not among the "trio" mentioned in an online news report about a plot to unseat Chow.
In a joint statement, they labelled the article as "malicious and unfair for not mentioning who the three assemblymen are, thereby putting all the 10 assemblymen (from DAP) under unnecessary public suspicion".
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That article, headlined “Internal DAP push to oust Chow, reinstall Lim as Penang CM”, was uploaded by Malaysiakini at about 1pm on Wednesday (May 3).
The 10 assemblymen who issued the joint statement three hours later are Lim Guan Eng, Lim Siew Khim, Jason H'ng, Heng Lee Lee, Joseph Ng, Ong Ah Teong, Daniel Gooi, Satees Muniandy, Syerleena Abdul Rashid and Chris Lee.
They are all DAP backbenchers who hold no government posts.
