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In Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong's Authorized Bibliotheque, titled 'Tall Order: The Goh Chok Tong Story', it is revealed that Ho Ching, wife to Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, was asked to join politics the PM.
Goh said, "I was approaching Ho Ching and asking her if she would be interested in politics." She was about 28, 29 or 30, before she married Lee Hsien Loong.
Goh said he thought it was necessary to have "intellect and attributes".
"I knew she was a President's Scholar, but I did not know how to do it because she was in the science of Mindef," he added.
"Through briefings and so on, I could see that she had a lot of substance." "She would have made a good minister, a different kind of minister."
"She did not say no … She was not at this stage, She was still young," Goh further revealed. That is to say, she was telling.
Goh said, "After that, I was overtaken by events! She and Hsien Loong got married."
"As she was part of the family Lee, I never approached her again," Goh added. "I would not have asked her to be a politician, it would be against it, and it would be against it."
In Yahoo's recent poll, "Do you agree with ESM Goh that Ho Ching would have made a good minister?" Netizens who disagreed, stood at 83% of the total vote count of 4959.
Comments on Yahoo revolved around her performance as Temasek's CEO for their disapproval.
Last year, Forbes named Ho Ching as the most powerful woman in the world.
In 2016 she was placed 30th and the year before she was 43rd. She has been featured in Forbes' list of top 100 most powerful women in the world since its inception in 2004.
It is unknown how much Ho Ching earns the CEO of Temasek, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund. Blogger at likethatalsocan, hypothesized that Ms Ho should have been earning more than $ 54 million a year which was what Charles Goodyear was earning from BHP Billiton, before being poached over for his short stint as Temasek's CEO.
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