What's happening today in Sibu? Quotable quotes, planned events and unplanned incidents as they occur in P212.

7-11am DAP candidate Wong Ho Leng with leaders, including Lim Kit Siang, had a morning walkabout at Rajang Park.

8.30am Housing and Local Government Minister Kong Cho Ha visits Sibu central market.

9.30am SUPP today come out to defend their candidate Robert Lau on the Allah issue, stressing that religion should not be politicised.

Sibu SUPP publicity secretary Daniel Ngieng said the issue only happened in Peninsular Malaysia and there is no issue here because they can still use "Allah" in the Bible.

"Don't abuse Semenanjung problems to poison the Sarawakians," he said in a daily press conference this morning.

"Please lift religion out of the politics. It is very dangerous, it can cause people to kill each other," he added.

He also opined that the issue will have no bearing with local voters.

10am Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu Numpang visits rumah Sebastian Onggoh at Passai Besar, Sibu

10.30am Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin meets Parent-Teacher's Associations at SMK Agama Sibu.

11.26am DAP may file an official complaint with EC on alleged removal of voters names from Sibu electoral rolls.

Sibu by-election campaign manager Chong Chieng Jen said at least 50 people have complained over the past two days of the official campaign period.

He claimed they were registered under the Sibu parliamentary

constituency, some as recently as in 2008, but now find their names

have been removed.

"We are collecting the data now. We suspect this could be a systematic shifting of voters, the playing around of the rolls by certain people, maybe the EC," Chong said. 

2pm Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president James Jemut Masing visits Bukit Tanggi, Batu 2.

3.45pm A PKR Youth leader, Fariz Musa, claimed that leaflets with racist undertones are being distributed in the Malay-majority area of Nangka, one of the three state seats under Sibu.

One of leaflets was entitled 'Wajah Sebenar DAP: Benci pada Bumiputera & Islam' while another with the BN logo was entitled 'DAP racists'.

Fariz also lodged a police report at Sibu district police headquarters over the issue.

"Three more days and it will be May 13. BN will try to play up racial sentiments," he said at a press conference in Sibu.

Meanwhile, DAP's Chong Chieng Jen said the Election Commission has ordered them to cover the symbols of other Pakatan Rakyat parties on their billboards.

PAS member of Parliament Siti Mariah Mahmud claimed she had discovered the names of already-dead voters whose names still appeared on the electoral roll.

According to her, among 48 voters listed Ilir Nangka, eight had already died, one recently.

There were also some voters, if alive, would be over 100 years of age, she added.

6pm Independent candidate Narawi Haron said he will adopt a "silent strategy" by making house -to-house visits to promote himself without printing any banners or leaflets.

He already visited a few areas including Sungai Merah and Sungai Aup today, Narawi told Malaysiakini via phone.

He also stressed that he will not quit the race. Today is the last day for any of the by-election's official candidates to quit.

7-10pm DAP to organise 'Sibu4Change' ceramah at Batu 10 Airport Road.

The party candidate Wong Ho Leng will be there at 8pm while DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and Selangor state exco Ronnie Liu at 7pm.

7-10pm Three DAP assemblypersons from Melaka - Goh Leong San (Kesidang), Lim Jak Wong (Bachang) and Khoo Poay Tiong (Ayer Keroh) will attend two separate PAS ceramah at Hany Cafe and Kg Nangka.

8pm: Robert Lau speaks at a ceramah held by SUPP in Sungai Merah. About 100 people attend. Lau urged the people to vote for him and support the ‘1Malaysia’ concept adding that he will bring development to the area.

He told those present not to vote for DAP as he claimed that would mean supporting PAS and an Islamic state.

"You want to be together with Najib? Or Nik Aziz?" he asked rhetorically.

9.06pm: DAP's Ngeh Kor Ham said Sarawakians should be the catalyst for religious freedom in Malaysia.

Speaking to over 200 people gathered at Paramount Hotel in Sibu, he said: "This issue is greater than using the word ‘Allah’. When Sarawak joined Malaysia in 1963, the Kitab Suci was considered a sacred book.

"We must make our stand now and we in Semenanjung (Malaysia) are looking to you in Sarawak to lead the change because you have the numbers," he said.

Also speaking are DAP national leaders Teresa Kok, Chua Jui Meng, Tunku Abdul Aziz, Subang Jaya state assembly person Hannah Yeoh and PKR's Tan Kee Kong.

10.41pm : Bernama reports that Sibu PKR Youth head, Jee Chang Peng, 42, has quit the party because of the ‘internal squabbles and uncertainty in the party’.

"PKR is now in chaos and many branch leaders here have been scrambling for posts and quarrelling at every meeting," claimed Jee.

Jee said he planned to join a BN component party but had not decided on which.