By Kor Kian Beng

A MAN in a hurry for power - that was how Reform Party's ousted chairman Ng Teck Siong described Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam, who took over as the party's secretary-general on Monday.

'He's in a hurry for power, so I'll just leave it to him. He has been saying he wants to be the secretary-general. What can I say? Let time prove it,' Mr Ng said last night.

Last Monday, the Reform Party announced the appointment of Mr Jeyaretnam as secretary-general, Mr Edmund Ng as interim chairman and Mr James Teo Kian Chye as interim treasurer.

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