Turun Padang more instead of meddling, Moyog YB told
Published on: Thursday, September 18, 2014
Penampang: Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) Moyog urged PKR Moyog Assemblyman Terence Siambun to go down to the ground more and meet up with constituents instead of meddling in Barisan Nasional (BN) affairs. PBS Moyog Chief John Chryslo Masabal (pic) was puzzled that the Sabah Parti Keadilan Rakyat vice chief had gone on an offensive mode when PBS Vice President Datuk Radin Malleh voiced out the party's interest to represent BN in Moyog in the next election. "Is he (Siambun) rattled by the prospect of facing PBS in the general election? Is he feeling the heat since the Moyog people now know he could not fulfil all his election promises?" he asked.
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Masabal said PBS only wanted to be given a chance in Moyog and that Radin did not mention anything about the opposition in Moyog. "This is a BN internal matter. It is between PBS and its component partner which represented BN in the last election. It is not PKR's problem," he said here, Wednesday. "However, Siambun went to the extent of talking down PBS President Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan, claiming he had lost the respect of the KDM people due to the proposed Kaiduan Dam," he said. Masabal advised Siambun, as a newcomer in politics, to learn to show respect to senior leaders like Pairin who had contributed so much to Sabah. "That is why PBS still needs his leadership. It is not him (Pairin) who needs PBS," he said.
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To Siambun's contention that PBS should first focus on the seven seats that it had lost in the 13th General Election, Masabal said PBS had never lost Moyog. "Our advice is, deliver first what you have promised to the voters, namely addressing the flood problem and go down to the ground more to meet up with the constituents.
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"I met the people in Longkungan recently who told me that they don't even recognise their assemblyman now. Do not say (you cannot fulfil the promises) because you are not in the government. A promise is a promise," he said. Siambun had been reported as saying that the KDM community had rejected PBS based on the party's losing seven of its traditional strongholds while winning only with a slim majority its other 10 seats in the last general election. Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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