KOTA KINABALU: Two Sabah state assemblymen, who resigned from their parties two years ago in order to retain their places in the Barisan Nasional (BN) government, are being mocked by the opposition for their weakness.The two – who had pleaded with their BN coalition members not to criticize them – are Gerakan Sabah state assemblymen Raymond Tan Shu Kiah (Tanjung Papat) and Au Kam Wah (Elopura).
Both have been advised by their former ‘master’ Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) to resign from all their government posts immediately to retain their dignity.
Tan had reportedly called on his collegues in BN component parties to stop being unfriendly to Gerakan.
SAPP information chief Chong Pit Fah described Tan’s call as feeble.
He said Tan, who is also the State Industrial Development Minister, is mistaking the hard truth that the peninsula-based party is irrelevant in Sabah.
Chong said that Tan and Au, who had joined Gerakan after leaving SAPP when it left the BN in Sept 2008, had still not understood that they had lost the respect of their BN colleagues.
“Now that Raymond Tan and Au Kam Wah have lost face and the respect of their BN colleagues, the only honourable thing for them to do is to resign all their government posts immediately,” Chong said in a statement here recently.
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