Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is hoping that his visit to the Engkilili state constituency in Sarawak today will bring good luck so that the Barisan Nasional can defend the seat in the state election this Saturday.
He said he had visited the constituency two days before the 10th Sarawak state election in 2011.
"Coincidentally, I am here for the second time also two days before polling day and I hope it is a good sign that the Barisan Nasional candidate (for Engkilili) Dr Johnichal Rayong (Ngipa) will win with a bigger majority this time," he said when meeting the folks at the Rumah Panjang Christopher Ningkan longhouse in Pais, Skrang here.
In the contest this time, Dr Johnichal Rayong is being challenged by PKR's Nicholas Bawin Anggat and two independents, Adan Sandom and Ridi Bauk.
In the 2011 polls, he won the seat with a 3,807 majority. Najib said before him, his father the late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein had also visited Engkilili when he was Malaysia's second prime minister.
He said his father's concern and his own for the wellbeing of Sarawak was proof of the BN's long-term struggle to champion the people's interests.
Through the visits he had made before this, Najib said he understood very well the aspirations of the people of Sarawak who want much better development.
"I have never been 'lejuk' (tired) of visiting Sarawak. It is because I want to see Sarawak move ahead at a faster pace," he said.
At the event, he also approved a request to upgrade Jalan Ulu Skrang which connects 24 longhouses and two schools in the area to the Pan-Borneo Highway.
Bernama
Thu May 05 2016
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is hoping that his visit to the Engkilili state constituency in Sarawak today will bring good luck. - Bernama Photo
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