Former chief minister Dr Koh Tsu Koon is in ‘no hurry' to meet his successor Lim Guan Eng to discuss any administrative matters pertaining to the previous state administration.

Koh said the need did not arise for him to accept the invitations since there were no pressing issues to be addressed.

He also strongly denied that he was running away from his responsibility by declining to meet Lim.

gerakan youth agm 2007 051007 koh tsu koon 2 "I have already given Lim my personal advice on administrative matters on the day he was sworn in as the Penang chief minister.

"That's something between me and him, which I ought not to disclose.

"Thus there is no urgency for me now to meet Lim again," said the Gerakan acting president to journalists.

He had earlier handed over to the Buddhist Tzu Shi Association in George Town cash donations worth RM30,000 each to earthquake victims in China and cyclone victims in Burma.

Ever since taking over the state administration after the March 8 general election, Lim has made numerous public calls to Koh discuss a number of issues pertaining to previous state administration.

Among the biggest issues were the land scam that allegedly caused the state government to lose millions, the controversial dissolution of the Pertubuhan Bunga Tanjung and the hotly debated RM25 billion Penang Global City Centre mega-project.

No interference for the moment

Despite these calls to seek explanations, Koh has always maintained silence.

"It seems easier to meet the prime minister than the former CM," Lim even quipped once.

But Koh was neither bemused nor felt obliged to answer such invitations. Instead he said that Lim should refrain from making public calls on him to explain each time an issue was being hatched and blown up through the media.

"He blows up an issue in the public and then invites me for a discussion. What's the point of that?"

"So I would rather leave the matter as it is and would not meet at the moment," said Koh.

"My stand is not to interfere with the present state administration. The new government should be given a grace period to perform before I can criticise," he added.