Disillusioned activist Sindu quits STAR
Exodus from STAR is expected with the exit of long-time Sabah human rights and consumer activist.
Luke Rintod, FMT
PAPAR: A well-known human rights and consumer activist, Patrick Sindu, has dropped a bombshell on surging State Reform Party (STAR). He is resigning from STAR to join another opposition party, PKR.
Sindu, who was STAR chief for Papar, said he had lost confidence in the party led by maverick Sabah opposition leader, Jeffrey Kitingan.
Sindu claimed there will be a mass resignation from STAR following his exit.
In a text message to his friends today, the former long-standing president of the now defunct Consumer Association of Sabah (Cash) said he will be joining PKR tomorrow.
“I am joining PKR at 2pm tomorrow at a PKR function at Kampung Sungkadon, Papar, to be witnessed by PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail,” he said.
When FMT called, Sindu said details of his reasons for leaving STAR would be disclosed in his exit speech at the Papar function.
“Please come tomorrow, you will hear it [the reason] in my speech…” he added.
It is rumoured that Sindu has been unhappy with the way STAR has treated him.
He has been particularly annoyed that Jeffrey had excluded him from the party’s long list of leaders to sign a transparency pledge with Transparency International (TI) in Kota Kinabalu a few months ago. Jeffrey had apparently chosen mostly “green horns”.
