Courageous leaders who dare to defy KL

Any p'sula party will find SAPP cannot be controlled

Political observer in Forum recently claimed that Pakatan Rakyat "returned the favour to SAPP" (for leaving the BN) by giving SAPP the "cold shoulder", Sabahans must not stop being naive any more. SAPP must wake up. PR leaders in KL will finish off SAPP for one simple reason - it is not that SAPP cannot be trusted. It is because SAPP cannot be controlled by KL.

The last thing they want in Sabah is a political party like SAPP which dared to defy their national leaders.Remember what happened to Usno's Tun Mustapha?

PR, like BN, wants to control Sabah and its resources such as oil, land, forests and wealth, When Malaysia was conceived in 1962, KL only wanted Sabah and Sarawak to balance oil off the Singaporean Chinese population.

"Development" was only an afterthought to lure the naive peoples of Borneo. Neither BN nor PR will change this basic power equation in Malaysia's
Politics of Federalism .

PKR, DAP and PAS leaders saw how SAPP declared no confidence on the Prime Minister in 2008, PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim had shrewdly used SAPP for his Sept 16 bid to take Putrajaya. This failed miserably and remains Anwar's biggest blunder. SAPP left BN and sacrificed posts; benefits and access to government.

PR does not want such courageous leaders who dared to defy KL; they cannot let SAPP set an example for Sabah PKR, DAP and PAS leaders. Such defiance of national leaders would make Sabah uncontrollable. Look at what happened to Dr Jeffrey Kitingan whose ambitions of rewriting the Malaysian constitution to elevate the Borneo states to equal status with Malaya scared the hell out of Anwar.

As for DAP, in the April Sarawak state elections, the Sarawak DAP's authority to appoint election candidates used from 1978 until 2008 was withdrawn by the DAP Secretary General.

Because SAPP refused to be like a buffalo led by the nose, PR will plot and manipulate and manoeuver to finish of SAPP and put an end to any more talk of "autonomy". PR will say SAPP cannot be trusted. They know that it is not because SAPP cannot be trusted but because SAPP cannot be controlled.

How is SAPP going to fight to win? The answer to that question is Sabahans want to know.

Sabahan Malaysian (Lifted from Daily Express)

SAPP ready for One to One

SAPP panel is ready to negotiate with Pakatan

KOTA KINABALU, 23 May 2011 - Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) is ready to hold discussion with Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to find ways to face Barisan Nasional in the coming 13th General Election.

SAPP has formed a committee headed by Vice President Dullie Marie to hold such discussion with Pakatan's three panel members from DAP.

SAPP is now waiting for the announcement from Pakatan Rakyat's Vice President Fuziah Salleh.

Pakatan's de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has predicted that the ruling Barisan Nasional might dissolve the Parliament and call for an election as early as July this year.

Such a negotiation is important to enable the opposition front to face the BN for the coming election on one to one basis.

Once the negotiation is done, both SAPP and Pakatan would be able to organise their election machineries to work on the respective ground more effectively.

Dullie said the negotiation is vital and must be materialized as soon as possible so that the opposition could prepare well and to avoid last minute maneuvering.

He said an understanding by both parties would give the opposition a good chance to topple the ruling the BN.

All is not well for Pakatan Alliance

At the party's June assembly, the sex video scandal will take centre stage, say party insiders.


KUALA LUMPUR: DAP, PKR and PAS are strange political bedfellows and this will be tested severely at PAS’ annual general assembly in June.

The Pakatan Rakyat alliance has not gone down well with certain sections of PAS members and now it has come under close scrutiny with the emergence of the sex video where the main actor is said to resemble PKR de facto chief Anwar Ibrahim.

PAS has been riven by two sections since it joined Pakatan to take on Barisan Nasional (BN) in the 2008 general election and this was very obvious during the party elections in 2009.

In that election, one faction – the “young intellectual moderates” – took on the other camp – the veteran fundamentalists – in a head-on collision where all positions, except the president’s post, were contested.

A source said: “The party elections saw Anwar’s ‘friends’ contesting, a move seen by many in the party as an attempt to take control of the party leadership.”

Then there was also the question of party deputy president Nasharuddin Md Isa meeting with Umno leaders after the general election.

That issue has been settled following party president Abdul Hadi Awang’s guarantee that the matter has been buried. Now the latest issue on the sex video is expected to take centre stage.

Nagging issues

Despite party secretary-general Mustapha Ali saying that the party would take a stand after police had completed their investigations, party members to the AGM are expected to pressure the assembly to take an open stand.

The party’s stand is vital in the wake of the upcoming general election where party members need a clear guideline on where they stand, given that the party’s relationship with DAP is always “touchy”.

The ban on gambling in PAS-held states has created a lot of “unrest” between leaders of the two parties – one with secular philosophy while the other is Islamic fundamentalism. There are also other nagging issues like the setting up of an Islamic state.

The old timers are also wary of the motives of PKR leaders in wanting the party to change “a little” to become a moderate political organisation.

The veteran fundamentalists, who are friends of Anwar but know where to “draw the line” in their relationship, are also aware that Anwar is a shrewd politician and would not want to be caught off-guard.

At this year’s AGM, Anwar’s close friend Husam Musa, who was defeated in the 2009 election against incumbent Nasharuddin, is again being nominated to contest the same post.

At the June assembly, the elections will not be a major concern but the party’s stand on the sex video and the guidelines the party will adopt in the uneasy Pakatan alliance will be primetime news.

By Zainal Epi