BARISAN Nasional chairman Najib Razak said today Pakatan Harapan “imported” outsiders to make up the crowds at its ceramah.

Thousands have turned up at PH ceramah nationwide, even at BN-held constituencies like Malacca and Putrajaya, including civil servants in the administrative capital.

But the caretaker prime minister dismissed the huge crowds, saying that he had checked and found that PH has been bringing in outsiders.

“Who says BN ceramah have no response? We don’t bring people in buses. I see no buses. Maybe one or two.

“But at the PH ceramah in Putrajaya recently, which I saw via social media, I did not see civil servants. They didn’t look like civil servants. I know the faces of civil servants.

“After checking, I found out they (PH) brought people from outside. But they claim civil servants support them. This is a political trick, a lie… They will do anything, as long as they meet their goal.

“I want to tell you that on the night of May 9, Putrajaya belongs to BN,” Najib said at a BN meet-and-greet in Pasir Gebu in Penaga, Kepala Batas, today.

He told the 5,000-strong crowd in BN shirts that the ruling coalition was not losing support because of the help it gave to people.

“Who helps the fishermen? Can they put their hopes on DAP? PKR? We are the ones who protect the interests of fishermen and rice farmers.”

Pasir Gebu, where Najib is speaking, is a rural with many fishermen and padi farmers who get monthly aid.

Earlier, incumbent Kepala Batas MP Reezal Merican Naina Merican, who is also caretaker deputy foreign affairs minister, said BN would win with a bigger majority at GE14.

“We are going on different energy. We will defend our seats and win with a much higher majority,” he said.

Kepala Batas, a parliamentary seat with 60,523 voters consisting of 78.65% Malay, Chinese (17%) and Indian (4.11%), is synonymous with former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who was MP from 1978 to 2013.

Reezal, who won the seat by 4,176 votes in the last general election, is defending the seat in a three-cornered fight against PH and PAS. – May 5, 2018.