Najib Wants Sabah To Remain BN's "Fixed Deposit"

KOTA KINABALU, Aug 4 (Bernama) -- Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak wants Sabah to remain as the "Fixed Deposit" or stronghold for Barisan Nasional (BN) in the coming general election.
Najib, who is also BN deputy chairman, is confident that the Sabah BN can repeat the impressive performance it chalked in the last election.
"I consider Sabah as a "fixed deposit" because it is our stronghold... every time there is a general election, Sabah comes up as our stronghold.
"Thus, it is the hope of the party leadership that the support will remain in the coming general election. Probably the other states can be considered as `current account' (with varying support), but let Sabah remain as the fixed deposit for BN," he told reporters after opening the simultaneous delegates meeting for the Putatan, Sepanggar and Penampang Umno divisions at the Youth and Sports Ministry Complex in Putatan, near here today.
Najib said although the opposition had taken several measures lately to gain wider support, including in Sabah, such efforts, however, failed to gain the people's support.
They did this in Ijok. They (the opposition) had adopted a very aggressive attitude without considering the question of principles and truth... they continued to attack the leaders and so on. I treat these merely as a scare tactic.
"They create a scare but the people will eventually make a rational evaluation that their interest is more secure under the Barisan Nasional and I'm confident that in Sabah too, the same thing will happen," he said.
He said the increased activities of the opposition in Sabah will not necessarily attract the people's support.
On the general election, Najib said that his call to strengthen Umno and the BN at all levels is not only restricted to a particular time-frame or the general election.

tunku : if sabah is umno and bn fixed deposit why not considering a VP post for sabah umno leader?