Liew, whose resignation comes just a week after State DAP deputy chairman Fred Fung resigned, said that he was resigning from all his party posts in the state committee as well as a life member of the party.
"I have lost faith and trust over the leadership of DAP and feel very disheartened over the treatment I received from people who are in control of the state committee," Liew said yesterday.
He said there was something seriously wrong with Sabah DAP where senior party members and loyalists have been resigning despite the party’s best showing in the May 2013 general election where they won three state seats and one parliamentary seat.
Cracks began to appear when Api Api assemblyman Hiew King Cheu quit the party in December last year to become a Barisan-Nasional friendly independent.
DAP and its Pakatan Rakyat partner Sabah PKR have been reeling in a series of defections despite the opposition’s best electoral showing in over a decade where it won 12 of the 60 state seats and three of the 25 parliament seats in Sabah.
Sabah PKR lost two elected assemblyman – Jelani Hamdan (Matunggong) and Jeremy Majalad (Kadamaian) – who became Barisan friendly independents while at least nine PKR division heads also quit the party.
Sabah DAP chairman Jimmy Wong could not be reached for comments on the latest resignation.
Political observers are expecting to see more resignations in view of unhappiness over certain new leaders in the state line-up.
They believe that the older leaders are unhappy with brash leadership styles of certain younger elected members and had not given due respect to older leaders.
"I am not respected all the time as vice chairman and have been taken for granted," charged Liew.
He said the resignation of veteran party leader Fung earlier this month just went to show that the "ungrateful people in the party" failed to recognise his contribution over the last 20 years to build the party.
Fung together with the Kota Kinabalu DAP women chief Candy Wong together with her committee had quit on Jan 1.
In Malay .....Utusan Borneo
Naib Pengerusi DAP Sabah keluar parti
KOTA KINABALU 8 Jan. - Kemelut perpecahan dalam parti DAP Sabah terus kronik, kini tiba giliran Naib Pengerusinya, Peter Liew Fui Ken bertindak keluar parti termasuk melepaskan semua jawatan yang disandangnya dan tidak lagi menjadi ahli seumur hidup parti berkenaan.
Keputusan Fui Ken, 68, meletak jawatan adalah kira-kira seminggu selepas Timbalan Pengerusi DAP negeri, Fred Fung dan Ketua Wanita Bahagian Kota Kinabalu, Candy Wong mengumumkan keluar parti setelah tidak berpuas hati dan tidak tahan untuk terus berurusan dengan pimpinan sekarang yang tidak menghargai mereka selaku pemimpin kanan dalam DAP negeri.
"Saya telah hilang keyakinan dan kepercayaan terhadap barisan kepimpinan DAP serta sangat berasa hati terhadap layanan diterima daripada individu yang kini mengawal barisan kepimpinan negeri," katanya di sini hari ini.
Dakwa beliau, berlaku perkara salah yang sangat serius dengan DAP Sabah, sekali gus menyaksikan ramai ahli yang setia turut mengumumkan pengunduran meskipun parti berkenaan mencatat keputusan cemerlang dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 yang lalu, iaitu menawan tiga kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) dan satu kerusi Parlimen.
Tambah Fui Ken, detik perpecahan sudah mula dapat dilihat apabila ADUN Api Api, Hiew King Cheu memutuskan keluar parti pada tahun lalu dan menjadi penyokong bebas Barisan Nasional (BN).
Selain DAP, rakan sekutu parti itu, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Sabah turut bergolak apabila menyaksikan pengunduran beramai-ramai ahli parti itu yang diketuai oleh ADUN Matunggong, Datuk Jelani Hamdan dan ADUN Kadamaian, Jeremy Majalad.
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