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Thursday, March 24, 2011

LDP stunned by Musa snub

An upset LDP president VK Liew has described Sabah Chief MInister Musa Aman's decision to appoint Dr Yee Mo Chai as a 'bad precedent'.

KOTA KINABALU: Barisan Nasional component, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is aghast that Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman has continued to snub the party in the allocation of cabinet posts.

LDP leader VK Liew has described Musa’s decision to appoint PBS deputy president-cum-State Resource Development and IT Minister Yee Moh Chai as the Chinese DCM replacing Peter Pang En Yin, as a bad precedent.

“He (Musa) has obviously picked the wrong piece of jigsaw puzzle to try to complete a picture. It is therefore imperfect.

“He has made a decision that has set a bad precedent and I leave it to the wisdom of the people to judge his action,” said Liew in a brief message via SMS from Kelantan.

The deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department said Yee’s appointment has resulted in two DCMs from one party.

PBS president, Joseph Pairin Kitingan is also a DCM under the KadazandusunMurut quota.

Liew added that the decision had failed to consider the feelings and interests of the other state BN component parties and in particular LDP, who had earlier asked for fairer treatment in the reshuffle of the state cabinet.

“We feel like we have been marginalized in the coalition,” he said.

He also said that he was never consulted over the decision, despite his earlier statement asking for fairer treatment for LDP from the BN chairman.

“Maybe (the Chief Minister did this) because (he feels) LDP is not important?” he speculated.

Liew said the party would discuss the matter during its coming Supreme Council meeting, to be held soon.

Recently, when demanding for fairer treatment and share of positions in the state cabinet, Liew reminded that LDP had contributed to the BN victory in the 2008 general election by winning all the four seats contested in Tg Kapor (Kudat), Merotai (Tawau), Karamunting (Sandakan) and the Sandakan parliamentary seat.

He also maintained that the Karamunting state seat which was taken over by peninsula-based party Gerakan after its assemblyman Peter Pang joined the party, rightfully belongs to LDP.

He explained that from the beginning when the constituency was formed in 1999, Karamunting had always been allocated to LDP to contest and it will continue to be so. - FMT

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