Shafie still undecided on defending Semporna seat

Warisan president Mohd Shafie Apdal is still in two minds over which seat he is going to contest in the upcoming 15th general election (GE15).

He said there are several considerations to be made before deciding to defend the Semporna parliamentary seat that he has held since the 1995 general election when he was with Umno and since the general election in 2018 when he was with Warisan.

“I’m not sure yet (defending Semporna). I haven’t made a decision. We will see when the time comes,” he said.

He was speaking to reporters after launching the Putatan Warisan GE15 machinery in Kota Kinabalu last night.

In GE14, Shafie defended the Semporna seat when he obtained a majority of 20,674 votes, but there have been talks that he would contest Lahad Datu in GE15 against its incumbent Mohamaddin Ketapi who quit Warisan in October 2021.

- Bernama