By Datuk Teddy Chin
SOON after BN’s defeat in 2018 and Tun Musa slowly bowing out from the political scene, he handed the Sabah Umno chairmanship to Hajiji, formerly the Treasurer.
But Hajiji did not stay long as Sabah Umno chief.
In December 2018 he announced that he and about a dozen Sabah Umno YBs were quitting to become Independent Assemblymen.
In January or February 2019 Bersatu led by then PM Tun Dr Mahathir accepted them into the party in KL.
In April 2019 Dr M together with Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (then Home Minister) flew into KK to officially launch the Sabah branch of Bersatu.
It was held at the ITCC during which Dr M announced Hajiji as the head...
By C C PungJustice of PeaceMy language skills are limited.'Fucked up' is my best description of Sabah politics.The fucked-up-ness is illustrated in the departure of two parties - SAPP and Star - from the socalled GRS coalition whose acronym is probably better off representing something else.With the two departures which, like Malaysia's favourite judicial acronym DNAA, GRS is living in a corpse.I've long lost count of the strange fellows sleeping in GRS' political bed and can't fathom its belief system.Having watched how Sabah came out of the White men's colonial era and lived through years of colonialism by a people call Malayans who share my own skin colour, I thought we were done being naive...
