Undeterred: Bujang leaving the Sikamat police station, one of the early polling centres in Negri Sembilan.
SEREMBAN: Abandoned by his so-called supporters and having spent thousands of ringgit on banners which have yet to be put up, Bujang Abu is still not throwing in the towel yet to unseat three-term Sikamat assemblyman Datuk Seri Aminuddin Harun.
The 72-year-old independent candidate – who is using the spectacles as his logo in the state polls – said he still believes in the saying that one may never know unless they try.
“I have spent some RM10,000 so far and I have run out of funds as that was all I had.
“I had also paid a friend to put up 200 banners but I have yet to see them.
“The going is tough but I am not giving up just yet,” he said.
Cutting a forlorn figure, the grandfather is sad that friends who had urged him to contest as an independent weeks ago are nowhere to be seen.
His five children, he said, are not interested in politics.
Asked if he has been campaigning at all, Bujang said he did walkabouts at the beginning but has since stopped.
This is the third time Bujang is trying his luck in politics.
When the former Tenaga Nasional Bhd technician contested against Aminuddin in the 2018 polls, he only managed to secure a meagre 15 votes.
Bujang had also stood for the Seremban parliamentary seat in 2013, where he got 83 votes.
He, however, is unperturbed over yet another drubbing.
“If I lose my deposit, let it be. I will just move on,” he said.
Despite these setbacks, Bujang is hell-bent on contesting the Seremban parliamentary seat in the next general election.
“If I live long enough, I will vie for the Seremban seat again.
“And to do that, I will start saving some of my pension from next month,” he said, adding that he is not afraid of losing at the polls as there are others who have lost elections more times than he has.
