PENANG Barisan Nasional’s anti-Pakatan Harapan posters which were put up early this morning had DAP all riled up, but they have made little impact with the people.

Bagan voter Wilson Moorthy said people were used to seeing all kinds of posters during election season.

“As a voter for over 20 years here, I have seen so many posters, caricatures and others attacking DAP politicians.

“BN raises questions about 51 undelivered promises by the state government. But has BN delivered all its promises?” he told The Malaysian Insight.

The 50-year-old said it was true DAP had failed to deliver some election promises, like the 2008 pledge to abolish the Sungai Nyior toll in Butterworth.

The promise was never fulfilled as the DAP-led state government lacked federal powers. However, to make up for it, the state built an alternative road allowing locals to bypass the toll plaza.

He said if BN wanted to raise issues, it should go for something more solid like the undersea tunnel project, instead of using posters.

“It will die down very fast ... but now there is the issue with (Chief Minister) Lim Guan Eng knowing the businessman who was paid RM19 million. The CM has to explain the pictures of the them together.”

Wilson was referring to recent reports Lim had taken photographs with the businessman, who was allegedly paid by the tunnel and highways project contractor for “consultancy services” to stop Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) investigations.

Photographs of the two in a house, and in a car, have been circulating on social media.

“What voters want is to get rid of corrupted leaders. So if Lim is guilty, he has to go. Nobody is saying he is an angel,” Wilson said.

On the other hand, he also said locals could see for themselves whether the state government under Lim’s leadership had been performing for the last 10 years.

“The people are not stupid. So the posters won’t have much impact.”

Marketing executive David Shu from Butterworth also said he did not think the posters could influence voters to change their minds about the Penang government or PH.

“The people have decided which side they want to support. They also have eyes to see what the state government has done for Penang.

“At this point, BN can try anything but I don’t think it can influence the people anymore,” he said.

The marketing executive in his 30s said the more BN make such attempts to disparage the Penang PH government, the more its plans will backfire and disgust voters instead.

A salesman from Simpang Ampat, who only gave his name as Eyu, did not see the posters himself but when shown a photo of it, remarked: “Nonsense. I don’t think it has anything to do with me.”

A factory worker in the Mak Mandin industrial estate, who only wanted to be known as Noryati, said she saw the posters on her way to work, but thought little of it after that.

“The election is coming, so this is normal, isn’t it?” she said, adding she did not know what the 51 undelivered promises by the state government were.

The woman in her 20s, who was buying food from a stall after work, said she did not make an effort to find out.

The posters printed in multiple languages had Lim’s picture superimposed over a flood scene and a cleared hill slope, and the words: “Boasting Pakatan Harapan” and “10 years, 51 empty promises”.

BN had in the past accused the DAP-led Penang government of failing to deliver at least 51 projects since the opposition took over in 2008.

Penang BN chief Teng Chang Yeow said the poster put up overnight had met their two goals as Penang BN’s campaign dry run and to send a message to Penangites about the undelivered promises. – March 20, 2018.