He claimed that top Pakatan leaders themselves had confessed that the opposition coalition no longer existed.
“SAPP was challenged by top Pakatan leaders to join Pakatan claiming that only Pakatan can defeat BN. But where is Pakatan today? What has happened to the Pakatan YBs who were elected? They are the ones who have joined BN. Look who is agonising now? Look at how both BN and Pakatan are fighting themselves. Both BN and Pakatan are agonising over what to do next because of their lies and of their false promises to the people.
"Both Pakatan and BN have laid the traps for themselves. There is a Malay saying, “pelanduk lupakan jerdt, jerat tak lupakan pelanduk (the mousedeer has forgotten the trap but the trap will not forget the mousedeer),” said Yong in his speech at the SAPP Parents’ Day celebration in Hakka Hall here on Sunday.
The former Chief Minister also claimed that BN and Pakatan were facing the ‘blow back’ consequences of their lies and actions.
“In contrast to the agony being faced by the other parties, SAPP and our local Sabah parties are able to come together to celebrate Parents Day as a family,” he said, adding that SAPP was also happy to have with them leaders of local Sabah parties and NGOs.
“As you know, SAPP is forging solidarity with local patriotic Sabahans to form an alliance. Among us today are Datuk Wilfred Bumburing (APS president), Datuk Kalakau Untol, representative of UBF/ Star, Jalumin Bayogoh and Tony Minggir.
“So far, we are co-operating on activities like the UBF Academy, the APS forum, the Independent Committee on RCI, and the Sunduvan Double Six memorial.
Let’s cement this co-operation so that we all can grow to become a strong political grouping to fight for Sabah’s rights,” he said.
The former chief minister saidthe FAQ or Frequently Asked Question before the last general election was whether opposition local parties would join the Malaya-based Pakatan, but now the FAQ was whether local parties can forge a united alliance.
“When SAPP fought for Sabah’s autonomy and left the BN in 2008, both BN and Pakatan people laughed at us, saying that it is futile to fight for autonomy. But SAPP has been vindicated again.
In fact, autonomy for Sabah and Sarawak is now the main stream issue in Malaysia. Even Tan Sri Harris Salleh, two days ago, was reported to have said that if Sabah and Sarawak were given autonomy, “it means that the opposition has won.”
“It means that we have won the issue of Sabah autonomy. And, since the issue of autonomy is gaining strength in Sarawak, it is likely that local parties in Sabah will do much better in the next general elections than in 2013,” he said.
Yong said some of his friends had told him that SAPP was ahead of time and that Malaysia was not ready for Sabah^ autonomy.
“Well, it is better to be proven right in future than to be proven wrong, like what is happening to both BN and Pakatan. People can see what is happening in the United Kingdom and Turkey, where the regional Scottish National Party in the UK and the Turkish party in Turkey have done extremely well, such that their national governments have to recognise the aspirations of the Scottish and Kurdish peoples in their countries,” he said.
In his speech, Yong paid tribute to the heroic mountain guides of the recent earthquake that claimed the lives of 18 people on Mount Kinabalu.
Its president, Datuk Yong Teck Lee, said that the mountain guides had performed beyond
their call of duty in the bid to rescue those stranded on the mountain.
They took on the role of rescuers. Some had even sacrificed their lives for the people that they were looking after, he said.
Yong said that the heroic acts of the mountain guides have brought international praise
and admiration for Sabah.
“Indeed, the mountain guides have set an exemplary example for all of us because their self-reliance, resilience and selflessness in the face of severe adversities had brought back our self-confidence in ourselves as Sabahans.
“For this and their service to Sabah, we, in SAPP, salute and thank the mountain guides,” he said, adding that one of those who played a part in the rescue was Joseph Kolis, a youth who had been charged with handing out information about ‘Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia’ (SSKM) in Tuaran.
On the Parents’ Day celebration,Yong hoped the tested fabric society of man-woman parents would continue for the next 5,000 years or more.
“And that our Asian societies will not go the way of some western societies that now destroy the basic fabric of society by recognising openly and legally same sex marriages, such that parents can mean man-man couple and woman-woman couple,” he said, adding that parents, according to him are defined as one father, one mother.
"Parents, with children, a nucleus family, forms the basis of society, it is the most basic unit of society that is our society fabric. I am not saying that all families must have the same structure, because some families have guardians who are not parents, some bread winners of families are not the parents but a grandfather, an uncle, a single mother, a brother or other relative.”
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