Sabah PKR defections: Blame Anwar Luke Rintod | November 4, 2013 A Sabah party assemblyman claims Anwar Ibrahim had promised to help finance their service centres but nothing has reached them. UPDATED KOTA KINABALU: PKR’s de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim’s unfulfilled promise to help financially the party’s assemblymen in Sabah is believed to be the real reason behind the impending defection of two of its elected representatives. The two assemblymen speculated to leave PKR are Matunggong’s Jelani Hamdan and Kadamaian’s Jeremmy Ukoh Malajad. Later in the day, Kadamaian assemblyman Jeremmy declared that he had quit PKR and declared himself BN-friendly independent. Local party insiders claimed that Sabah PKR might also lose two other assemblymen and its single MP soon, if the opposition party leaders reneged on the promise to give financial aids for representatives to operate their service centres. A Sabah PKR assemblyman who declined to be named told FMT that Anwar had pledged, post general election, to help financially the party’s elected representatives but thus far there’s been no news. The general election was in May. “Soon after the general election, Anwar promised these assemblymen the party would chip in to kick-start the operation or service centres of Sabah assemblymen. “Even Lajim Ukin (had since appointed to head Sabah PKR) talked of the same offer of help from PKR,” the assemblyman said. PKR is currently in control of the rich Selangor state in Peninsular, while its counterparts DAP and PAS control the states of Penang and Kelantan respectively. According to the assemblyman, Sabah PKR leaders started to lose hope and confidence in the PKR leadership which they claimed is embroiled in its own internal bickering both at state and national levels. “PKR itself has internal problems, not mentioning its difficult relationships with DAP and PAS. “Anwar’s promise to help sounded good but we have not seen any concrete help taking place and there is no sign it is going to be fulfilled, not until PKR assemblymen had left,” added the assemblyman. PKR in disarray The supposedly entrenched attitude of certain PKR leaders of “saying things they don’t mean” is fast becoming the party’s own precursor of downfall in public perception in Sabah and Sarawak, he pointed out. He also claimed that their Sarawak PKR counterparts are similarly in dire need and are in disarray and would, under the current condition, be easily routed by Barisan Nasional in the state’s state election which could be held as early as next year. “I think the styles “cakap lain, buat lain,” (say one thing and do other thing) is the biggest challenge for PKR’s top leadership. “These politicians don’t know that the people at large too are auditing their words and pronounced policies for years. “We do not want to be a part of a “politics of lie and back-stabbings”,” he said qualifying that not everything is lost in PKR as there are still good leaders in the opposition party. PKR MP: Not true Meanwhile, in a Facebook response, PKR’s MP for Penampang, Darrell Leiking, denied that he was about to quit PKR. “I deny the allegations and inference made in total and state that I am not made up of the same ‘genes’ as some who easily betray the trust of the electorates. “My loyalty to my electorates through my party is steadfast and will never be compromised,” he said. He added that PKR stood for the very same causes that he believed in. “This party has supported and has always respected my belief in Sabah as an autonomous and equal partner in this federation. “My cause is to ensure that Sabah regains its autonomous position in the federation, for justice and to deliver (despite all act of vengeance by the revengeful BN to my constituency) my best during my term on the premises to speak amongst others of the unfairness, unjust and the abuses of this BN regime,” he added.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:39:56 +0000
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