By FMT Staff
KOTA KINABALU: Former PKR vice-president Jeffrey Kitingan today announced the formation of United Borneo Front as a network grouping for Sabahans and Sarawakians to assert their rights.
He also said that he was not leaving PKR as was widely speculated and dodged questions if he would leave the party in the near future.
Speaking to reporters at the end of his two-month vacation from politics today, Jeffrey said that the United Borneo Front would work to ensure that the rights of Sabahans and Sarawakians are protected.
The movement will work as a watchdog for the people of Sabah and Sarawak, he added.
Sources close to Jeffrey however said that the movement will work closely with Zaid Ibrahim's new political party, Parti Kesejahteraan Insan Tanah Air (Kita).
Both Jeffrey and Zaid had a fall out with the PKR leadership following discrepancies in the party's polls last month.
Jeffrey's disenchantment with PKR also stemmed from, among others, the party's failure to leave Sabah leadership issues to Sabahans and lack of commitment from the PKR leaders to the 20-point Malaysia Agreement.
At his press conference today, he once again hit out at Pakatan Rakyat, especially PKR, for behaving just like Umno and Barisan Nasional when it comes to matters involving the people of Sabah and Sarawak.
Jeffrey has been politically rootless since the ouster of the Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) government led by his elder brother Joseph Pairin Kitingan in 1994 by the current Umno-led BN coalition government.
He joined and left in quick succession several newly-formed political parties following the fall of PBS.
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