Anwar announcing PKR candidates for GE 17 Incumbent Api Api lawmaker Christina Liew, the former Sabah PKR chief, was dropped from the lineup. KOTA KINABALU : -...

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...

Ewon Benedict:  It is very awkward for me to remain in the federal cabinet with such an AGC stance, which is clearly contrary to my struggle as UPKO president.  THERE  is nothing surprising or even shocking at the resignation of Ewon Benedict from his federal Cabinet post announced late last night. HIS resignation as the Minister of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives has been anticipated after the Penampang division of United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (UPKO) passed a resolution demanding for his resignation. The division had, at its last month’s convention, wanted Ewon to resign from the federal Cabinet if the federal government filed an appeal against the Kota Kinabalu High’s landmark decision affirming Sabah’s right to 40 per cent...