Member of Parliment for Tawau, Datuk Chua Soon Bui claims that Democratic Action Party (DAP) is trying to sabotage the attention of Sabah Progressive Party to cooperate with Pakatan Rakyat
Chua also questioned DAP national vice chairman Datuk Teng Chang Khim
of his real agenda behind his recent accusation against SAPP that it
was responsible for bringing in Umno to Sabah.
“It
was widely reported in the local Chinese dailies that Teng had made
such an accusation during his speech delivered in Tawau recently,” she
said yesterday.
In
an attempt to rebut the issue, Chua described Teng’s accusation as
baseless and mischievous aimed at assassinating the character of SAPP
president Datuk Yong Teck Lee and herself.
“When
Umno came to Sabah in 1990 after PBS left the BN coalition, SAPP was
not even formed yet at that time. SAPP was only formed four years later
in 1994 after Umno gained entry into Sabah. How could a non-existing
party bring Umno into Sabah?” asked Chua who is also SAPP vice
president.
Teng
who is also Selangor Speaker, should first get his facts on Sabah
politics right before making any baseless allegation against the SAPP
president and herself, Chua said.
She
said Teng should not have made such a wild accusation against SAPP
leaders, especially given the fact that two of its current senior state
leaders like its State chairman, Jimmy Wong, and its member of
parliament for Kota Kinabalu, Hiew King Cheu, were both SAPP founding
members, whom he could have easily consulted on the historical and
political facts on Sabah.
“It
is absolutely regrettable and unbelievable that such a highly-learned
and respectable Speaker from a Pakatan Rakyat-ruled state could simply
hurl wild accusation against a fellow opposition like SAPP. Or was he
actually targeting at a certain senior Pakatan Rakyat leader, but lacked
the guts to mount a direct confrontation?” she asked.
She
said being such a senior and supposedly intelligent politician, Teng
should not have much problem in getting his facts on Sabah politics
right, unless he chose to be ignorant in order to achieve his hidden
agenda that is probably best known only to himself.
Chua
also reminded Teng that SAPP has been sincerely working on a “winning
formula” with the PKR leaders to topple the Barisan Nasional (BN)
government in the coming 13th general election.
“Our
leaders, including our party president Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee, have
even declared and reaffirmed our support for Pakatan Rakyat to capture
Putrajaya, and supporting Datuk Seri Anwar as the Prime Minister of
Malaysia,” she pointed out.
She
was thus bewildered as to why despite a call for a ceasefire against
SAPP made by DAP national advisor Lim Kit Siang in Kota Kinabalu last
October, stressing that their common enemy is BN/Umno, and not SAPP, DAP
leaders at national and state levels continued to attack SAPP and its
leaders.
She
noted that among those DAP leaders who had been relentlessly attacking
SAPP and its leaders included its member of parliament for Cheras, Tan
Kok Wai, its national publicity chief, Dr Hiew Kuan Yau aka Superman
Professor, and its Sabah publicity chief, Chan Foong Khin.
“They
are literally sabotaging SAPP’s fervent and sincere plan to forge
cooperation with Pakatan Rakyat in the coming general election, and this
is rather strange and suspicious. We just wonder what’s the real
motive and agenda behind it?” she said.