KOTA KINABALU: Many of the 24 Sabah Barisan Nasional MPs are rejecting a move to get them to sign a loyalty pledge to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.State Barisan Backbenchers Club chairman Datuk Anifah Aman said the move proposed by Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Shafie Apdal was an insult to the Sabah MPs. He added that the pledge should instead be signed by all Barisan MPs nationwide.
He said various Sabah MPs including himself had repeatedly voiced their loyalty to the Barisan leadership and pledged that they had no intention of crossing over to join the opposition.
“We did this during the Permatang Pauh campaign, on television and again in Kota Kinabalu. Is the frequency of denial equivalent to our loyalty?” said Anifah, the Kimanis MP and Kimanis Umno chief.
He said many Sabah Barisan backbenchers had called him asking about the pledge and some had said they felt that they were being treated like “cattle.”
Anifah questioned Shafie's real intentions for proposing the loyalty pledge and wondered whether it was aimed at scoring “political points” in his bid for the Umno vice-president's post in the party polls.
On Thursday, Shafie had said that Sabah and Sarawak MPs would be submitting a pledge declaring their loyalty to the Prime Minister by Friday or Saturday. He had said the MPs from both states would never quit the coalition despite the various rumours about them.
Kalabakan MP Datuk Abdul Ghapur Salleh said the loyalty pledge seemed to infer that Sabah MPs could not be trusted.
Saying he would not be signing any such pledge, Ghapur, the Kalabakan Umno chief, said the Sabah MPs had been vocal about issues affecting the state as they felt that these problems had to be resolved.
“But this should never be misconstrued as us being disloyal to the leadership,” he added.
Karambunai MP Datuk Eric Majimbun, the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) deputy president, said neither he nor fellow SAPP MP Datuk Dr Chua Soon Bui of Tawau would be signing such a pledge.
“What is the point of such a pledge? This so-called pledge doesn't make sense,” he said.
tunku : what the sabah mps said is true, why should only sabah and sarawak mps sign the pledge of loyalty? it should be all the bn mps (140 mps) sign it, not only sabah and sarawak.the other thing is sign the pledge for their loyalty to bn not pak lah.
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first of all,i would to address one thing.who actually made the call that 30 mps from Sabah gonna jump party?
it was Jeffery Kitingan.and Anwar
ponder also why Jeffery and Anwar said so.perhaps,just perhapas,to bring chaos in BN.if that's the real intention of Jeffrey and Anwar and i think they quite succeded.
Now BN people seems not trust each other.One say this and the other says that.
though,the Sabah mps got some points.why just Sabah?why not other constituency as well?.be fair to all.if there's a plague,it should involved every BN parliaments.
saya bersetuju dengan pendapat ceria.
mungkin sebenarnya 30 mp nak melompat tu semata-mata spekulasi dan kata-kata politik.tapi kini ahli-ahli BN pula bertelagah antara satu sama lain.
kiranya seperti kata ceria,jefri dan anwar telah berjaya "porak-porandakan" BN.
BN perlu selesaikan isu ini.selagi wujudnya rasa tidak yakin antara satu sama lain,maka susah untuk BN bergerak sebagai satu unit.
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