Kalabakan Umno Wants LDP Merotai Seat

TAWAU: Kalabakan Umno wants the Merotai state seat which now is represented by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to be returned to Umno at the next election.

Its chief Datuk Abdul Ghapur Salleh said Kalabakan Umno was making the demand because LDP leaders lately had been making press statements which were not line with the Barisan Nasional (BN) spirit.

"How can we trust LDP to contest the Merotai seat when they do not show respect for Umno and its leaders," he told reporters after chairing a Kalabakan Umno division meeting here Sunday.
He added that as a component party of the BN, LDP should raise any grievances it had with the state BN leadership and not resort to the media to attack state leaders.

"Although the LDP president (Datuk V.K Liew) has disavowed media statements made by his deputy (Datuk Chin Su Phin), Kalabakan Umno cannot accept this," stressed Ghapur, who is also the MP for Kalabakan.

-- BERNAMA