'Sultan did not name Tee for Johor exco post'

MCA Youth chief Wee Ka Siong has refuted a claim by the suspended former party organising secretary, Tee Siew Keong, who stirred up a controversy for going against the party’s position to accept a Johor exco post.
                
Tee had previously said that he was ordered by the Johor sultan to represent the Chinese community in the Johor state exco.

However, Wee (right) said he has confirmed with the sultan in an audience on May 24 that the latter did not name Tee to take up the exco post.

“From the three-and-a-half-hour audience with sultan, I can tell you all that I have known about how the issue arose.

“The sultan said, 'I want my subjects to be represented in Johor'. He only wanted a Chinese representative and we have three (BN) Chinese state assemblypersons in Johor,” Wee told a press conference at the MCA headquarters this afternoon.

The three assemblypersons are Tee, Teoh Yap Kun (MCA-Paloh) and Lau Chin Hoon (Gerakan-Pemanis).

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