Joseph Bingkasan
All Sabah BN component parties are eyeing
Sepanggar and claim they can wrest it from opposition SAPP, which won
the seat with a 10,000 vote majority.
Besides Umno, the United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (Upko), Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) and Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) are all optimistic that they stand a chance to wrest the MP seat from Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP).
Incumbent MP Eric Majimbun won the seat for BN in the 2004 election and went on to retain it for the coalition in the 2008 general election but SAPP pulled out of the BN on Sept 17, 2008 after the ruling coalition came close to being toppled from power after losing its two-thirds parliamentary majority.
SAPP leader Yong Teck Lee was also once – in 1999 – the MP for the constituency, when it was known as Gaya. It is considered SAPP’s stronghold.
But national coalition government leaders are confident that Sepanggar which encompasses the state seats of Inanam and Karambunai is a BN stronghold and any component party candidate can win the seat back.
Upko was the first to stake a claim for the MP seat during the party divisional meeting in Kg Kokol, Menggatal in July last year.
Divisional chief Steven Kutai, a former assemblyman for Inanam assemblyman said that the party’s claim to the seat was based on the BN’s power sharing concept.
“Like other BN component parties, we’re stating the wish of all Upko members in Sepanggar.
“What’s important is that after a decision is made on the party to contest the seat, all the coalition members will be united to ensure the victory of the candidate.”
“That’s what Upko has been doing all this while to make sure Sepanggar will continue to be represented by the ruling party,” he said.
Umno ready to wrest Sepanggar
The Upko candidate on standby is supreme council and deputy divisional head Albert Bingkasan.
Upko is headed by federal minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Bernard Dompok.
Another potential contender is Umno Sepanggar head Jumat Arshad, who is also the constituency’s BN chairman.
Party workers have been laying the ground work for him over the past two years to stake Umno’s claim for the seat.
The Sabah Umno liaision committee deputy chairman Salleh Tun Said said as much earlier this month when he challenged Umno Sepanggar to wrest the MP seat from SAPP.
Jumat responded by saying that his division was not only ready to face Majimbun but would support any candidate from other BN components should the party’s leadership decide not to field him.
He reiterated this when he said the constituency is open to all BN component parties in reply to PBS president
Joseph Pairin Kitingan’s announcement on Sunday that PBS had filed an official application to the BN leadership for the party to nominate their candidate for the MP seat.
PBS supreme council and Karambunai division head William Majimbun is their candidate on stand-by.
Last month PBRS president Joseph Kurup had also said that he had instructed his party’s divisional leaders in Inanam and Sepanggar to work hard and evaluate the party’s chances in the constituency.
Kurup, who is federal Natural Resources and Environment deputy minister, said feedback was positive.
LDP wants it too
Apart from Upko, Umno, PBS and PBRS, another BN component party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) headed by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Liew Vui Keong also wants to be considered for the seat.
On the opposition side, apart from SAPP, the State Reform Party (STAR), Pakatan Rakyat component parties and independents are all eyeing the seat.
In the 1999 election Yong won the seat for SAPP garnering 15, 313 votes against PBS’ Johnny Goh, the current Inanam assemblyman, who polled 11,198 while PAS’s Hamzah Abdullah’s received 729 votes.
Majimbun defended the seat for the BN in 2004 and 2008 winning by a majority of more than 10,000 votes.
SAPP menang di sepanggar pun atas tiket BN...jadi jangan tinggi hidung dan bangga kerana jika bukan kerana tiket BN, SAPP tidak akan menang di sepanggar..
ReplyDeleteSAPP tidak pernah bertanding atas tiket sendiri sejak SAPP ditubuhkan...SAPP selama ini hanya menumpang populariti BN untuk kepentingan SAPP dan YTL..ini kerana SAPP tahu mereka tidak sehebat PBS..
DeleteKalau bertanding atas tiket sendiri pun PRU-13 nanti memang mereka tidak menang punya.
DeleteYes and I still remember when Liew suddenly emerged the winner that time.
DeleteJadi kenapa nak mengata pasal BN nak beli undi ka apa?
Deleteother parties especially the opposition could never match the BN government’s track record of implementing various transformation programmes to improve the wellbeing of the people.
Deletekali ini SAPP takkan dpt menang lagi.
DeleteSorry to say that SAPP won't win any seats. All this while they get helped from BN. Now, Anwar has sidelined SAPP too
DeleteSAPP tiada peluang untuk meang di Sabah, baik lupakan sahaja.
Deleteni kali lah majimbun akan kalah dengan hilang deposit atas tiket SAPP..
ReplyDeleteSAPP terlalu bangga diri yang kononnya mereka hebat kerana menang di sepanggar...tetapi SAPP lupa bahawa yang menang di sana sebenarnya adalah BN kerana pengundi memilih BN dan bukannya SAPP...dan sudah pasti SAPP akan kalah di semua kerusi yang dimenangi pada pru12..rakyat akan berpihak kepada BN..
Deletekita tunggu dan lihat siapa yang dapat sokongan lebih banyak.
DeleteWell it was clearly shown that SAPP is indeed desperate to find its way out.
DeleteBagi peluang SAPP berangan-angan untuk menang walhal hakikatnya mereka langsung tiada harapan
DeleteSAPP tidak akan berpeluang menang atas tiket sendiri...SAPP tidak gah seperti PBS...
ReplyDeleteSAPP memang hancur.
Deletethe people in Likas need to make a wise decision in the coming polls by giving their full support to the BN candidate because we do not want to see the Likas constituency continue to be marginalised from the mainstream of development
DeleteKepunan SAPP mahu rasa kemenangan seperti yang mereka rasa semasa berada dalam BN
Deletekenapalah kalau parti2 komponen BN masing2 menyatakan hasrat untuk meletakkan calon mereka di sepanggar? kerana pada akhirnya hanya akan ada 1 calon BN...lainlah dengan pembangkang..masing2 berebut yang mana akhirnya akan ada 2 atau 3 calon pembangkang...
ReplyDeleteMereka yang akan calonkan tapi akhirnya pucuk pimpinan akan tentukannya.
DeleteTop leadership will know how to do that.
DeleteDaripada mereka kutuk2 BN, bagus belajar macam mana BN boleh bersatu di bawah satu payung
DeletePastikan calon yang diletak itu benar-benar berjiwa rakyat.
ReplyDeletepilih yang terbaik untuk dicalonkan.
DeletePilih pemimpin yang lantang menyuarakan hak rakyat dan rajin bekerja.
DeleteLagi bagus lagi kalau penduduk dan ahli sendiri yang menentukan adakah sesuai atau tidak orang itu duduki kerusi tersebut.
ReplyDeleteLikas state constituency had traditionally been a BN stronghold before the SAPP, a BN component member, pulled out of the BN coalition on Sept 17, 2008
Deleteperjuangan di sepanggar mesti hangat dalam GE kali ni, tidak yakin terhadap SAPP.
ReplyDeletekenapalah ramai sangat yang berebut Sepanggar ni?
DeleteMungkin sebab itu ja tempat yang dorang boleh target kot:P
Deletekia tgk sapa akan dpt menguasai Sepanggar.
DeletePasti BN akan menang besar di Sepanggar. Pemimpin BN, jalankan tugas anda dengan jujur jika mau mendapat sokongan rakyat.
DeleteKali ni semua pihak target sepanggar,mestilah, kan lepas ni area sana akan ada pembangunan theme park.
ReplyDeleteChina investor pun akan fokus industri pemprosesan, tulah sepanggar jadi hangat sudah.
ReplyDeletewah!makin banyak yang berebut Sepanggar sebab pembangunan di sana. jangan lupa siapa yang bawa pembangunan di sana.
DeleteSemua ini terpulang kepada pengundi, hak-hak mereka memilih pemimpin yang terbaik.
ReplyDeleteKita yang mengundi jadi kitalah yang buat keputusan nak parti mana yang menang.
ReplyDeleteJadi, pastikan kita membuat pilihan yang tak mungkin kita sesali:)
ReplyDeleteTak kisahlah siapa yang bertanding, yang penting rakyat tahu nak undi siapa.
ReplyDeleteGerakan said a BN government was in a better position to serve the people well, adding that after about four years of representation by an opposition assemblyman, it was about time they thought of their future
DeleteMasa depan Sabah akan lebih terjamin jika BN masih menjadi pemimpin.
DeletePopular Sepanggar sejak akhir-akhir ini.
ReplyDeleteMungkin kerana Sepanggar ni akan jadi area yang penting untuk membangunkan kilang2 industri dan theme park.
DeleteSabah Gerakan Chairman Gordon Leong Vui Cheung has urged Likas voters to vote wisely in the upcoming general election and choose a BN government
ReplyDeleteThe Sabahans may choose whoever to make sure that they welfare can be taken care by the leaders.
ReplyDeleteThose who win the seat, please make sure the people satisfied with your work.
ReplyDeleteBetul tu, jangan pentingkan diri sendiri,tanpa sokongan rakyat, tidak boleh menang juga, jadi sentiasa uamakan rakyat jangan lupa diri.
DeleteBut please make sure you win without any black's tactic...
ReplyDeleteSabah Umno deputy chief Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak yesterday challenged Sepanggar Umno to go all-out to regain the parliamentary seat for the Barisan Nasional (BN) in the next general election and to ensure the two state seats, Karambunai and Inanam, remain with the coalition.
ReplyDeleteRead more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/09/10/salleh-wants-umno-to-wrest-sepanggar-seat-from-sapp/#ixzz280azQ51E
Sepanggar is held by the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) which won the seat in the 2008 general election on a BN ticket.
ReplyDeleteThe party pulled out of the coalition shortly after and the MP Datuk Eric Majimbun, is now an opposition elected representative.
Karambunai and Inanam remain BN strongholds, with Datuk Jainab Ahmad of Umno and Datuk Johnny Goh of Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) as the elected representatives.
Salleh said it would not be a difficult task to take Sepanggar if Umno members gave their undivided support to the BN candidate in the next general election
Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/09/10/salleh-wants-umno-to-wrest-sepanggar-seat-from-sapp/#ixzz280bCSIhR
yang pasti, lepas PRU ni, kerusi sepanggar akan kembali kepada BN..
ReplyDeletemana2 komponen BN pun yang bertanding kerusi sepanggar, tetap akan menang.. so tidak payah la berebut.. kalau tidak puas hati, bincang saja baik2..
ReplyDelete