WP’s Leon Perera and Nicole Seah resign over affair: Pritam
SINGAPORE - Workers’ Party MP Leon Perera and senior party leader Nicole Seah have resigned from the partyin the latest incident to rock the country’s political scene.
Mr Perera said then he was in an ongoing dispute with his driver, and was about to terminate his services. He said had also sought legal advice on the allegations of his driver, said Mr Singh.Subsequently over the next few months, Mr Perera’s driver also approached other members of WP with the same information, who all sought to verify the allegations with Mr Perera.Separately, other Central Executive Committee members also approached Ms Seah, after being informed of the same allegations.
In his meeting with Mr Singh, Mr Perera acknowledged that he should have been more forthcoming when he and other party members first approached him about allegations made by his driver.Mr Singh said that Mr Perera resigned on Wednesday, and had also informed the acting Speaker of Parliament. “From the moment the party was made aware of the video, we moved as quickly as we could, bearing in mind that we needed to be fair to everyone, get to the bottom of matters and put things right.”On handover arrangements in Aljunied GRC, party chairman Sylvia Lim said that Meet-the-People sessions would go on as usual, and alternate MPs have already been rostered to the end of the year to cover the sessions in Serangoon.
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