The end days of PKR in Sabah?

ARCHIVES 2009

By MT Webmaster On Oct 26, 2009

THE PEOPLES' PARLIAMENT

The Majlis Pimpinan Pusat PKR met today.

On the agenda, amongst others, was the re-constitution of the PKR Sabah state leadership.

Azmin’s out.

The PKR division chiefs have made it clear that he’s not wanted.

Have these division chiefs made it clear, then, who their choice is to lead Sabah PKR to face BN at the 13th General Elections?

If there were doubts until today, the fax received at PKR HQ this morning should have put those doubts to rest.

In a fax message addressed to PKR president Wan Azizah, 14 Sabah PKR division chiefs put their signatures to this message, naming just one man as their choice to lead PKR Sabah.

Keningau division chief, Datuk Dr. Jeffery Kitingan, is the choice of the strongest PKR divisions in Sabah.

My source who was at the meeting at Merchant Square today said Anwar made it clear at the meeting that he was not going to have any of this.

“No way in hell will I have Jeffrey as chief”, Anwar is reported to have blasted.

Anwar, it seems, is determined to see a Muslim lead PKR in Sabah because, it is said, he insists that Muslims make up the majority in Sabah.

That may be so, if we take into account the millions of illegal Muslim immigrants granted citizenship during Anwar’s days as DPM to Dr M.

Surely Anwar must know this. His hands are as tainted as that of Dr. M’s with the dilution of the political strength of the indigenous people of Sabah by the influx of Muslim immigrants who were later given citizenship in return for enforced allegiance to BN at the ballot box.

Even if it is true that Muslims now are the majority in Sabah, have we not gone beyond communalist, race-based and religion-orientated politics to that of meritocracy?

Is that not what PKR and Pakatan are supposedly championing?

The decision on the new Sabah PKR state leadership would suggest otherwise, at least as far as PKR is concerned.

I am told that the party leadership will announce that the man given the task to lead PKR in Sabah is Libaran division chief and Sabah PKR state secretary, Ahmad Thamrin Hj Zaini.

My source in Sabah tells me that Thamrin is an Anwar loyalist and his appointment will not go down well with the division chiefs and the PKR grassroots in Sabah.

Worse, I’m told that this man is a race and religious bigot.