"Ghani has brought a lot of achievement for Johor in the 18 years that he has been MB."

That is not the kind of endorsement one would expect from a political rival on nomination day, but that was one of the first things Lim Kit Siang said at his first press conference yesterday as the official DAP candidate for the Gelang Patah parliamentary seat.

But it also set the tone of his ‘gentleman's' campaign in the next 15 days...