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 Datuk Philip Golingai
KOTA KINABALU : - The tipping point in the split between all-Sabah coalition Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) and two of its component parties, Sabah STAR and SAPP, was numerical – ie, seat numbers.
During the GRS presidential council meeting in Kota Kinabalu on Wednesday, STAR president Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Jeffrey Kitingan told the coalition’s other six presidents – including Sabah Chief Minister and GRS chairman Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor – that the maximum number of seats GRS should allow Pakatan Harapan to contest in the upcoming state elections was seven.
Kitingan’s number was derived from DAP’s existing four incumbent seats (out of the six they won in the 2020 Sabah polls, two assemblymen...
