Each presidential candidate should focus on his own campaign, and should stop trying to get the competition to step aside, businessman George Goh said on Wednesday. Mr Goh was referring to fellow hopeful and former NTUC Income chief Tan Kin Lian,
He added that he was not concerned about the splitting of any votes, and any candidate who enters the race talking about splitting votes should be written off by voters as he is not competent.
“What are you representing? What are you going to tell the voters? Don’t do that anymore, you are not going to any justice to anybody.” He first mooted the idea - of meeting and discussing with Mr Goh on who should step down if both qualify - at theMr Tan noted that Mr Goh had responded to his overtures on Tuesday with a Chinese idiom that means going off into flights of fancy.
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