Be big enough to accept this, Gerakan

It is confirmed! Lee Kah Choon has accepted the appointment of a directorship of PDC and the executive chairmanship of InvestPenang.

According to the latest post in Malaysian Insider:

He would not comment on whether he would be sacked from Gerakan for accepting appointments as director of Penang Development Corporation PDC and InvestPenang. He has also been made executive committee chairman of InvestPenang.

All he would say was that had “withdrawn from active politics to concentrate on the development of Penang.”

I wrote  yesterday that he should be free to accept these posts because it is for the benefits of the people. As I have mentioned yesterday in a post about Lee, a politician’s first priority is for the interest of the people.

I hope Gerakan leaders will be big enough to accept this, and I really hope that Lee’s nemesis inside the party will not use this as an excuse to pressure the party leadership to take disciplinanry action against him. If they do so, it will only drive Lee over to DAP or PKR, and it will only further weaken Gerakan.

As one of my blog commentator, A True Malaysian,  said yesterday, politicians should not behave like small kids adopting the “I don’t friend you” type of attitude. They should be magnanimous enough to allow Lee to contribute his talents to help develop Penang and bring in investment to Penang.