The unpopular Tuaran division vice-chief quit yesterday in Kota Kinabalu with Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman, a day before Dr Wan Azizah was to arrive to resolve the “delicate situation”.
“We can kiss Putrajaya goodbye,” a senior Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leader told The Malaysian Insider when hearing about Pajudin jumping to Umno.
The PR leader added all three parties in the coalition, PKR, DAP and PAS, were banking on picking up more federal seats in Sabah and Sarawak but the latest development was now a setback ahead of snap polls expected this year.
Since his appointment on January 10, Pajudin has been facing fierce opposition from other Sabah division chiefs who disagreed with his selection.
“I have lost confidence in the leadership of PKR,” he said when announcing his resignation yesterday.
PR leaders also shared the sentiment, saying Pajudin’s jump came a week after Padang Serai MP N. Gobalakrishnan quit the party that first began in 1999.
“The PKR leadership needs to figure out what went wrong and take steps to recover and get back to leading Pakatan,” a PR leader said, adding the party was the ‘glue’ that kept the opposition pact together.
The other members of the pact are PAS and DAP, which has had some fractious party elections that has been resolved in the name of party unity.
PKR has faced also a divisive party election that saw ex-Umno minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim quit the party after Gombak MP and founding vice-president Azmin Ali went ahead of him in the polls.
But the issue came to a head in Sabah when most members objected to appointments made by the PKR leadership, leading to veteran leader Datuk Jeffrey Kitingan leaving the party to last December 31 to focus on his United Borneo Front (UBF) campaign for Sabah.
PKR later appointed Pajudin who said he was disappointed with the party’s leadership alleged failure to appoint his appointment saying that Kuala Lumpur has been able to handle objections from certain local leaders.
Late last month, 18 of the state’s 25 division leaders demanded the intervention of the central leadership to reconsider Pajudin’s appointment.
Pajudin also failed to convene the state committee meeting one week after his appointment after division leaders were caught in verbal argument causing the meeting to be disrupted.
The Sabah PKR has never won a seat in the state and has been in turmoil for years largely because of the existence of three major factions that have been seeking to dominate the state leadership.
Pajudin who was initially not on the list of potential candidates to lead Sabah PKR was seen as a proxy of a leader of another faction Ansari Abdullah, who heads the PKR Tuaran division.
Ansari was the Sabah PKR chief before the appointment of Azmin as the state chairman.
Party de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had also held the post of Sabah PKR chief in an attempt to bring the different factions together.
PKR won 31 parliamentary seats in Election 2008 and together with DAP and PAS, took 82 federal seats to hand Barisan Nasional (BN) an emphatic defeat. But PKR has lost some seats and now holds 23 seats. - Malaysian Insider
This is my standard answer / solutions:-
ReplyDeleteAll peninsular based parties to lose support in Sabah and to be confirmed by PRU13 or GE 13 as 13 is a sensitive number to Sabah where change in Government is the standard piece of the pressing message in 1967, 1976, 1985, 1994 and the next 13 is 13 - for sure.
Sabah/Malaysia is now ruled by 13 parties in the BeNd coalition after SAPP left and later entered Kimma for face saving only.
So the change is for sure to a local groups but now UMNO allow a dubious ISA detainee of Sulu to be installed the dubious Sultan of Sulu laying claim in Sabah. Thst is the destructive UMNO as if UMNO loses power in Sabah since 1994 (power grab), Sabahans would become refugees in own land..as illegal UMNO brought in more than a million of illegals to be made bumiputras in Sabah to destroy the land of Sabahans..after robbing Sabahans of almost RM30 trillions worth of assets in Malaysia according to my 30 Police Reports which BeNd has no answers.
So let them go back to Peninsular faster than the way they come here - PKR, PAS, DAP, (the end is near) and illegal UMNO take back your stool...too much in Sabah..
We need an Interim Governmment of Good Governance in Malaysia with Joshua Y. C. Kong as the Prime Minister to clear the shit still shitting everywhere.. Thank God.