Unhappy Patrick Sindu quits Star for PKRSiapa tahu dalam Star sekarang mungkin berlaku huru-hara disebabkan tindakan Patrick Sindu. Jika benar Star tidak terjejas, tidak perlulah ahlinya tampil membersihkan nama Jeffrey Kitingan dan parti mereka. Perkembangan politik Sabah setakat ini memang membuktikan bahawa kepimpinan Star terlalu angkuh, ego dan sombong. Semua kerusi di Sabah dia mahu sapu. Jangankan bekerjasama dengan parti pembangkang yang lain, malah siap bagi nasihat kepada parti-parti gergasi pembangkang supaya tidak meletakkan calon di Sabah.
(4 Jan 2013)
PAPAR : Public figure Patrick Sindu is quitting State Reform Party (Star) to join a Peninsular opposition party, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).
A check with Papar found out that locals there also had heard of Sindu impending departure from the Sarawak-based opposition party. This is a big slap to Star leader in Sabah Dr Jeffrey Kitingan and his team who had been accused of sloppy management of the party here, some of them have said.
Sindu, a former president of a now-defunct consumer body in Sabah, Cash, said he has lost confidence in Star leadership. Insiders in the know however claimed that Sindu could be unsettled in Star because the party has not made any commitment to him in regards to candidacy for the coming general election. Borneo Herald
PATRICK SINDU DEPARTURE, NO BIG EFFECT
(13 Jan 2013)
PAPAR : In respond to the claim by former Star head for Papar, Datuk Patrick Sindu, that Papar Star is dissolved, I would like to stress that the majority of grassroots leaders and members in Papar are steadfast in their unity with Star state leadership in regaining our pride and empowering Sabahans.
In Pantai Manis especially, there is no big effect at all from Sindu's departure. If anything, Star strength and support from the people in Pantai Manis is increasing even more by the day as more and more see and understand the earnest strugle and clear direction of Star.
On Sindu's allegation of arrogant leaders around Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, this is his personal opinion on other leaders and many have chosen to differ from his view. Sabahkini
Perkembangan terbaru ini, walaupun tidak bersifat kontroversi atau kritikal, tetap akan memberi kesan kepada parti-parti pembangkang di Sabah. Jika beginilah keadaannya, Bullet yakin BN tetap akan menguasai Sabah selepas PRU13.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteTHE STATEMENT by Dr Jeffry Kitingan confirms what I have suspected about his role and mission in approaching the 13th general election. As an opposition party STAR should be directing their attack to the Barisan Nasional instead they choose to attack fellow opposition parties. They only do this because STAR is working for BN to split the votes in the coming election.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteJeffry Kitingan can’t find any other words to attack me apart from describing me of practising politics of ‘cari makan’. If l were to practise politic of 'cari makan' then the best platform would be to remain in BN.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteThe people, particularly the KDM began to see the fruitless and almost fairy tale so-called vision of Jeffry Kitingan such as promising to move the capital of Sabah to Keningau and creating five ‘states’ in Sabah if STAR take control of the state after GE 13.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteAll his political endeavour points to only one thing and that is, he is trapped in his never-quashed-ambition to be the only number one in any political party that he ever joined and his sheer belief, may be from spiritual guru prediction, that one fine day he is going to be the chief minister of Sabah.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteWay back during the PBS era, when Jeffry was released from ISA detention and confined to house arrest in Kuala Lumpur he was allowed to travel to Sabah briefly with the mission to persuade Datuk Pairin Kitingan then to step down as President of PBS and Chief Minister of Sabah and that he will take over the CM post from Pairin.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeletePersonally I can expect this so called vision from a person who claims to be able to see fairy and able to communicate with the spirits of river stones and jar. "My political history is well recorded and I need not have to eloborate. In contrast, the people in general especially Sabahans are well versed with the political record of Jeffry Kitingan.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteHe called me to have a meeting and I told him that he can come to meet me at my office at the Ministry of Communication and Works but he told me that he is not that free to move around as he is being followed because technically he is still under house arrest.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteSo I agreed to travel to Tambunan to meet him. In the meeting he told me that he needed my support for him to take over PBS and the state government. I told him flat on his face that there is no way I condone the scheme. Therefore the meeting was brief and I came back and I was made to understand that he went back to Kuala Lumpur.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteI also still remember back in 1994 that he wanted to head Parti Democratic Sabah that we registered when he failed to register his own party. Failing this he also tried to wrest the presidency of PBRS but also failed.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteThen he thereafter caused big problem in AKAR when he tried to take over the presidency of AKAR. So he had ventured in so many a place to ‘cari makan’. But just ‘cari makan’ is not enough for him. He must have ‘ makan besar’.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteLet me clarify to Jeffry that APS is not a ‘sub-servience to any party in Pakatan Rakyat’. As announced by Datuk Seri Annuar recently APS together with PPPS is an equal partner in Pakatan Rakyat. We subscribe in the national agenda for change. As per the Borneo agenda the Kuching Declaration by Pakatan Rakyat is the Borneo agenda of the opposition coalition.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteIn the national and the Sabah Buku Jingga contains the comprehensive agenda for Sabah. We in APS believe that in order to achieve change there must be a national coalition of fellow Malaysians. "Refering to my encounter with Jeffry in my house I asked Jeffry as to what he meant by a ‘King Maker’ and I asked him to explain about his statement that he is ready to support BN.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteHe said that as a king maker he can bargain. I told him that if he is prepared to support BN then why bother to use STAR, might as well just join BN. Yes of course he won’t join any of the BN component parties because he will never be the number one there.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteI also reminded him about PBS. We won the state government but could not formulate and form of changes because UMNO is in control. And PBS always have to beg for Whatever things it wanted.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteSecondly any negotiation with STAR will be fruitless as long as their stand is against parties from Semenanjung Malaysia. Thirdly Jeffry is a person who cannot keep confidential discussions.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteI remember during the PBS time we have initiated unity talk among PBS, AKAR and PBRS in KL. After the first round of discussion we have agreed not to reveal the discussion to the public as we have agreed to have further discussion in Sabah.
BERDASARKAN HUJAH-HUJAH BUMBURING, JEFFREY KITINGAN TIDAK BOLEH DIPERCAYAI
ReplyDeleteHowever as soon as Jeffry landed in Sabah he revealed everything to the press. When I confronted him as to why he did not abide by our agreement he just merely said, “well the people need to be informed”.
The launch of the Sabah STAR party may have gone unnoticed if not for the advisory issued by the party’s secretariat.
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ReplyDeleteInterestingly, the advisory said that Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, the political figure who has been trying to put together an opposition front comprising Sabah and Sarawak parties to contest the next general election, will attend the launch ceremony.
Apart from the United Borneo Front (UBF), the pressure group which he heads, Dr Jeffrey has so far roped in the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP), a former Barisan Nasional (BN) component, and the unregistered Usno Baru into his so-called Borneo alliance.
ReplyDeleteAnd now, the alliance is set to add a new member, the Sarawak-based State Reform Party (STAR).
ReplyDeletePolitical analysts and party insiders say that Dr Jeffrey, a former Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) vice-president, has tried in vain to register UBF as a political party in the past one year.
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ReplyDeleteThis may explain why STAR has agreed to expand its foothold in Sabah, despite having been dormant.
Talk is that the party has agreed to make Dr Jeffrey its chief for Sabah and later get local opposition parties in Sabah and Sarawak to form the “United Borneo Alliance” (UBA).
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ReplyDeletePolitical commentators believe Dr Jeffrey is using UBF as a springboard from which he will eventually be admitted to STAR and become its chief.
ReplyDeleteApart from the opposition PKR-DAP-PAS pact or Pakatan Rakyat, the effort by Dr Jeffrey’s UBF along with SAPP, Usno and the Sabah People’s Front (SPF), has created another opposition front — the United Borneo Alliance (UBA).
“They will be fighting each other,” said Assoc Prof Dr Bilcher Bala of Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS).
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ReplyDelete“They don’t have a chance to win. This is exactly like the split among the opposition in the past. It will be very difficult for the opposition if they split up,” he added.
ReplyDeleteHe said many even believe that the rollout of the new Borneo opposition alliance is more of a preparation for the next general election, with STAR-UBF going for the votes of the Sabah natives (Kadazan, Dusun and Murut), the SAPP going for the Chinese votes and Usno, together with SPF, going for the Muslim-Bumiputra votes. But it is still a hard sell, he said.
“The biggest obstacle is that the people in Sabah and Sarawak are different. Culturally, they are the same, but in social life they are not the same. Political conditions are really different between the two states and their people,” he added.
ReplyDeleteInitially, there was wide speculation that Dr Jeffrey will officially announce his political plans in the middle of last month during UBF’s first anniversary gathering in Kota Kinabalu, but it did not happen.
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ReplyDeleteHowever, political commentators say the presence at the event of STAR president Dr Dripin Sakoi, SAPP deputy president Amde Sidek and the head of a group trying to revive Usno (United Sabah National Organisation), Datu Badaruddin Tun Mustapha, appears to indicate that Dr Jeffrey is a step closer to realising his UBA dream.
ReplyDeleteAs Datuk Johniston Bangkuai pointed out in his recent article in the New Straits Times, the formation of the UBA may be easier said than done as it will involve the question of who will be its leader.
Taking SAPP as an example, if the party decides to be part of the UBA, would its president Datuk Yong Teck Lee be ready to play second fiddle assuming that Dr Jeffrey heads the alliance, he asked.
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ReplyDelete“The parties concerned may share the same agenda but coming together under a common banner is something they have to sort out first,” he wrote.
SAPP’s Amde was reported to have said that they have not decided who should lead the alliance, but admitted that this is among the things that needs to be sorted out.
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ReplyDeleteWhat position Dr Jeffrey will assume in UBA, if it becomes a reality, remains to be seen, as currently he is not president of a political party and his UBF is only a non-governmental organisation.
ReplyDeleteHowever, for Dr Bilcher Bala, the idea of having an opposition front comprising local Sarawak and Sabah parties is simply not workable due to the different views and objectives.
“Bottom line, there are always three different worlds – peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak,” he said.
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