Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng wants the people of the state to judge for themselves the actions of Nibong Tebal member of parliament, Tan Tee Beng, and former deputy chief minister 1, Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin, who have quit PKR.

"No comment. The people are wise to judge them", he said when asked to comment on the actions of Tan and Fairus.

He said this to reporters after a courtesy visit by the Deputy Trade Minister of Thailand, Alongkorn Ponlaboot, in Penang today.

Lim, who is also the DAP secretary-general, said the actions of the two (former) PKR members will not affect the state's administration.

"We will continue to serve with the mandate given to us and we will not be disturbed by this matter," he said.

Yesterday, Mohammad Fairus announced he was leaving PKR and joining Umno while Tan announced leaving the party to be independent as he was disappointed  with the party's leadership.

Meanwhile, PKR today described Mohammad Fairus as a liability to the party.

"We must be thankful to Allah that Fairus has finally left the party.

"Since he joined the Penang government and after resigning from the post (of deputy chief minister) until now, he had been a liability," said PKR deputy president Syed Husin Ali.

In his e-mail to Bernama , he claimed that Mohammad Fairus had relinquished his post as the deputy chief minister as he was then being investigated by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), besides the factor of his poor performance.

"When he resigned, he demanded that the party pay for his loans on two luxury cars and pay him RM15,000 per month for a period to be decided by him," he said.

In a related development, PKR advisor Anwar Ibrahim was urged to focus on resolving the problems within his party and its coalition partners before rallying for support from the Sabah people, state Gerakan Youth chief Chang Shui Kiong said today.

He said Anwar was trying too hard to stir sentiments among the Chinese community in the state to go against the BN, including turning the Chinese New Year open house celebration in Kota Kinabalu yesterday into a political campaign.

"The general public know very well that Anwar is trying to divert the attention of the people from Pakatan Rakyat's internal problems and the failure and near-divorce in Pakatan's marriage of convenience by making baseless and fruitless attempts to badmouth the BN," he said in a statement today.

Yesterday, Anwar said at the open house that Gerakan and other Chinese BN component parties in Sabah had failed to defend their own race.

Chang said the allegation was baseless and was a cheap publicity to fish for votes from the Sabah Chinese community.

- Bernama