KOTA KINABALU: Sabah’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has sacked its secretary-general Teo Chee Kang who recently declared that he will take on party president VK Liew in the October polls despite supporting a ‘no-contest’ resolution by its supreme council in June.
Liew said the sacking took immediate effect. He said Teo was terminated because he had breached the party’s constitution.
Liew added that Teo’s membership in LDP, however, will be maintained.
He said Teo will also stay in his post as Special Task Minister in Chief Minister Musa Aman’s administration “for now.”
“My secretary-general has now gone public to declare his intention to contest in the party’s election and has accepted nominations for the top post.
“He has cited various reasons including legal points which I respectfully beg to differ with.
“Suffice for me to state here that he has breached the party’s constitution regarding his duties as a secretary general – that is, amongst others ‘to carry out the instructions of the supreme council’.
“In this regard, I think and I believe he has failed, neglected and/or refused to carry out the instruction as stated above on the resolution passed by the supreme council recently.
“Having considered all options, it becomes clear that it is no more tenable for Teo Chee Kang to remain as the party’s secretary general as he is no longer able to carry on the business of the party in accordance with the party’s constitution.
“Having consulted the party’s stalwarts, I make the decision to relinquish him as my secretary general whom I appointed in 2006,” he told a press conference here late yesterday.
Teo’s betrayal
Liew also simultaneously announced the appointment of Karambunai division chief, Loretto Padua Jr, a lawyer, as the party’s new secretary-general replacing Teo.
Liew further “reminded” other LDP supreme council members of their “duties”.
“To all the other supreme council members who had attended the supreme council meeting on June 9, 2013, and photographed, I wish to remind them of their duties to abide by the decision of the supreme council meeting as stated clearly in the party’s constitution.
They only have to ask themselves one question, which is whether or not the resolution agreed on and passed at the June 9 meeting is valid?
“If the answer is in the positive, then it is common sense and elementary that we do not have to have a second meeting on the same issue.
“If the answer is in the negative, then they are no more the men of honour and they should resign en bloc without having to meet the same fate as their ex secretary-general,” said Liew.
Yesterday Padua slammed Teo over his betrayal of Liew and others who believed that he was a “respectable and honourable man”.
Padua said Teo and the other council members had “agreed unanimously that the top two posts remain uncontested”.
“Teo was part of the supreme council that passed the resolution that the top two posts should not be contested.
“He is also LDP secretary-general in the party for seven years who recorded the minutes of our past supreme council meetings.
“So what is Teo is going to do now? What is he going to do about all the matters agreed in the previous meetings? he asked.
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