DAP lied to the people

KOTA KINABALU - DAP Sabah should not think that their "cutting of ties" with PAS Sabah would absolve them from all the lies and false promises that they have made to the people, said Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) President Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee.

Yong said it was hollow for DAP Sabah to "cut ties with PAS".

"If DAP is sincerely remorseful about their links with PAS, then DAP should leave the Selangor State government that includes PAS. And the DAP-led Penang government should remove PAS from its government ranks," he said in a statement here Monday.

Yong said the DAP's lies have now come back to haunt the party.

"PAS did not lie about hudud. It was DAP that lied to the people about hudud. PAS has never ever said that they will compromise on their struggle to set up an Islamic theocratic state in Malaysia and to adopt hudud laws.

"It is DAP that has all along told the people that PAS will not go ahead with hudud laws.

"DAP had convinced the people, especially Chinese, to vote PAS and Pakatan, with Lim Guan Eng putting his signature to a famous written pledge "tengokbulan, pangkahbulan" just before the last general elections.

"So, the time has come for DAP to apologise to the people of Sabah for misleading the people about the two-party system and for lying about PAS not going ahead with their hudud implementation," he said commenting on the statement by DAP Sabah chief, Jimmy Wong.

Wong had said that DAP Sabah decided to sever ties and suspend its alliance with PAS Sabah following the hudud law dispute.

Meanwhile, Yong said in another twisted attempt to wriggle out of their quagmire, DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang had been most explicit so far in openly begging Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to accept DAP into a Federal coalition government.

"With de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim in prison and the passing of PAS spiritual leader Nik Aziz and DAP stalwart Karpal Singh, Lim yesterday used the stale excuse of "save Malaysia" to forge a coalition with an Umno-led government.

"The best way to "save Malaysia is "one country, two systems" while an Umno-DAP coalition is to save DAP and Umno, not to save Malaysia," he said.

Yong said the breakup of Pakatan Rakyat showed that the so-called "two-party system" is a fallacy in Malaysia. "The way forward for Malaysia is a "one country, two systems". This means that Malaya and its states can do what it wants, including the imposition of a religious theocratic state.

"But the Borneo territories of Sabah and Sarawak can exercise full autonomy in a "one-country, two-systems" within the federation of Malaysia whereby Borneo can insulate itself from the racial and religious extremism that is toxic to nation building," he said.