Errant LDP sec-gen Teo sacked
LDP president VK Liew says Teo Chee Kang had breached the party’s constitution regarding his duties as a secretary-general.
(FMT) – Sabah’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has sacked its secretary-general Teo Chee Kang who recently declared that he will take on party president VK Liew in the October polls despite supporting a ‘no-contest’ resolution by its supreme council in June.
Liew said the sacking took immediate effect. He said Teo was terminated because he had breached the party’s constitution.
Liew added that Teo’s membership in LDP, however, will be maintained.
He said Teo will also stay in his post as Special Task Minister in Chief Minister Musa Aman’s administration “for now.”
“My secretary-general has now gone public to declare his intention to contest in the party’s election and has accepted nominations for the top post.
“He has cited various reasons including legal points which I respectfully beg to differ with.
“Suffice for me to state here that he has breached the party’s constitution regarding his duties as a secretary general – that is, amongst others ‘to carry out the instructions of the supreme council’.
“In this regard, I think and I believe he has failed, neglected and/or refused to carry out the instruction as stated above on the resolution passed by the supreme council recently.
“Having considered all options, it becomes clear that it is no more tenable for Teo Chee Kang to remain as the party’s secretary general as he is no longer able to carry on the business of the party in accordance with the party’s constitution.
“Having consulted the party’s stalwarts, I make the decision to relinquish him as my secretary general whom I appointed in 2006,” he told a press conference here late yesterday.
