LDP are like termites: Gerakan

Elopura Assemblyman Au Kam Wah urged the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership to stop behaving like termites whose gnawing at the State Barisan Nasional's structure may eventually cause the coalition's collapse, if left unchecked.

"This is precisely the attitude of the present LDP leadership who seem to have no qualms going all out to cause serious damage to the very house that houses them, in this case the Barisan Nasional," said Au.

He also said instead of calling for a change in the State Barisan Nasional leadership, it is LDP that should change some of its leaders.
"BN has never been a problem to LDP. Therefore the call for a change of leadership in State BN is simply outrageous and uncalled for.

What LDP must do is change some of its own leadership, have a face lift and move on," he said.

He also concurred with Gerakan Sabah Chairman Datuk Gordon Leong's call on the BN top leadership to seriously consider issuing a show cause letter and take necessary disciplinary action against the LDP leadership, if they continue undermining the integrity and stability of the BN coalition in the State.

Au noted that the LDP leadership had been attacking the State leadership ever since its former President-cum-former Chief Minister Tan Sri Chong Kah Kiat had a fall-out with Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman over the Mazu statue issue.

Chong even proceeded to take the State Government to court in 2009, but it was later struck out by the Court of Appeal. He believed that Chong still has some influence on the LDP today.

According to him, all the previous and recent statements of the LDP leadership were uncalled for, baseless, malicious and clearly designed to undermine the integrity of Sabah BN.

He noted such criticisms consistently and clearly indicated that they were of personal interest.

"Their dissatisfaction was clearly due to not getting positions in the government which they desperately wanted. It was clearly a sour grape syndrome.

"Records show that they hardly bring up any significant issues that genuinely concerned the people. It's all about position, position and position.

"And as for its so-called most vocal leader Chin Su Phin, everyone in town knew that he's a contractor by profession, who has benefitted immensely."

He said BN's major victory in the Batu Sapi by-election last year was strong evidence that the current setup of Sabah BN under Musa's leadership, is strong and functioning well.

"Compared to the time when the LDP President was holding the CM post, Musa has given more funding to the Chinese community, especially for Chinese education. In fact, the huge difference in the amount would put Kah Kiat to shame. This is public knowledge.

"Moreover, when Musa was urged by the public to reconsider the setting up of a coal-fired power plant, he brought the issue to the State Cabinet and had it cancelled.

"However, when the public requested Kah Kiat to reduce gambling, he instead doubled the number of slot machines in Sabah and re-activated a 4D operation that had been cancelled.

"Perhaps the LDP leaders are also having selective memory losses, so bad that they need to be constantly reminded of their misdeeds in the past!" charged Au.

He thus urged the LDP leaderships not to attempt to cover up their own incompetence which led to the decline of the party, by blaming others.

He said such an attitude was not only irresponsible but giving the opposition an opportunity to undermine the BN.

He reminded that ever since the formation of LDP, the party had been losing some of their senior leaders, all of which were due to internal squabbles that were often linked to manipulations by individuals with selfish motives.

Source: Daily Express