According to reports by several news outlets including The Straits Times, 8world News and MustShareNews, who cited their sources; the rumoured extra-marital affair between the Workers’ Party (WP)’s Aljunied GRC Member of Parliament (MP) Leon Perera and senior WP member Nicole Seah, had allegedly begun sometime in the middle of 2020, when Perera was mentoring Seah at the time.
Both Seah and Perera are married to other people and each of them have two children of their own.
The WP was allegedly made aware of the rumoured affair sometime between late-2020 and early 2021.
The allegations came about following the emergence of a now-viral video circulating on social media, showing two people who strongly resemble both Seah and Perera having an intimate dinner with red wine, with the latter holding the former’s hand and gently stroking it.
According to the source(s) who brought up evidential text messages and spoke to ST, showing that those who were made aware of the allegations of the rumoured affair, included WP chairman Sylvia Lim and Sengkang GRC MP Jamus Lim.
WP members were allegedly made aware of the duo allegedly going into hotels together and behaving inappropriately with each other since mid-2020.
ST reported that WP chief Pritam Singh, MPs Dennis Tan and Gerald Giam were also believed to have been alerted about the allegations of marital wrongdoing.
In a statement released to the media on Facebook by WP yesterday (17 July), the party said that they are “aware of a video clip circulating online today that suggests an inappropriate exchange between two senior Party members” and that “the Party is currently looking into the matter and will comment when we have the facts.”
Singh had told ST that the WP’s central executive committee (CEC) were in the midst of deliberating on the matter, and among the CEC members involved in the meeting were former WP chief Low Thia Khiang, Jamus Lim, Faisal Manap, He Ting Ru and others – Seah and Perera were not involved in the meeting(s).
This is a developing story and we will update this article accordingly when new information is made available.