Jeffrey again tells Pakatan to lay off Sabah

Ranau: State Reform Party's (Star) Sabah Chairman, Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, reiterated his call for Malaya-based political parties, especially Pakatan Rakyat, to consider focusing its aim at wresting all the 165 Parliamentary seats at stake in the 11-State peninsula.He said Pakatan should leave Sabah and Sarawak parties to stand in the other 57 seats in both states and in Labuan.

"We don't want to consider PR as our enemy but we plead to its leaders to consider the fact that they are already having the biggest share, 165 Parliamentary seats in Peninsular. Why should they still come here and get our Sabah and Sarawak seats?

"Let Sabah and Sarawak political parties contest in the two States, and we will support you (PR or Barisan Nasional) to get Putrajaya ...," he said, when launching the Paginatan Star in Kg Tagudon Baru, near here.

Jeffrey singled out Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) in his plea when he said "if PKR wants to take Sabah and Sarawak seats, it would expose itself to the danger of being labelled as another Umno or even worse than Umno because it wants to take more seats than what Umno already has in Sabah".

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Earlier, Star's Ranau division chief, Jalibin Paidi, in his speech echoed the same sentiment.

"We are not satisfied being treated as mere 'assistants' for them to get to Putrajaya (seat of Federal Government), we want to be the decider who should be the rightful government," he said adding that Star wants to raise the voice of "left-behind Sabah and Sarawak" to be heard and respected by an incoming Federal Government.

Jalibin, a teacher who had just resigned from his post, is believed poised to be Star candidate, either in Keranaan state constituency or Ranau parliamentary seat.

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Also giving speech yesterday was another teacher who had also just resigned, Feddrin Tuliang, who is slated to stand as Star candidate in the Paginatan state constituency.

Meanwhile, a local young "towkay" Kong Soon Choi, who hosted the function at the compound of his Sabindo businesses in Tagudon Baru, said he offered to help "not for himself but when he thought about the future of his own kids being treated as 'immigrants' in their own country, if he does not help now..."

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