Nurul Izzah: Pakatan will treat Sabah as equal
By Charlie Rudai, Free Malaysia Today
KOTA KINABALU: Pakatan Rakyat will treat Sabah as an equal partner unlike the Barisan Nasional which is taking the state for granted as a mere fixed deposit.
Two young guns of PKR — Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar and Seri Setia Assemblyman Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad — also assured that despite coming from Peninsular Malaysia, the Pakatan leaders are not here “to order Sabahans around”.
Nurul Izzah said Pakatan has so much to learn from the people of Sabah for their ability to live in harmony together although they are of different races and religions.
“We remain in admiration of Sabah’s racial integration and we have a lot to learn from Sabah and Sarawak. I think this is something that should not be underestimated.
“People in Sabah are Sabahans first and I think this is something that Malaysians as a whole should emulate,” said Nurul Izzah after a dinner gathering with Sabah PKR leaders organised by its Putatan division here last night.
According to Nurul Izzah, she and Nik Nazmi came to Sabah to lend support to PKR Sabah, as they represent the voice of the new generation of PKR leaders who would do their best to ensure the opposition wins in the next general election.
She said they would also be having small-scale meetings with young professionals in Sabah during their stay here.
Also known as Puteri Reformasi (reformation princess), Nurul Izzah said among the issues that PKR would be struggling for the people in Sabah was to ensure the state’s own natural resources are used to improve the quality of their life.
“The beauty and richness of the country cannot be plundered by a few robber barons… everyone must join in the fight to save Sabah and ensure the people here take what is rightly theirs,” she said.
“This is my first trip to Sabah and it is a learning process for me… I have heard a lot of good things about how Sabah residents could live in harmony much better than we do in the peninsula,” said
