10 Tawau DAP leaders quit, join Gerakan

Ten Tawau DAP leaders including publicity chief James Leong Yun Fui have quit and joined Gerakan, a BN component party.

Their resignation was announced by Gerakan vice-president Liew Yun Fah at a Chinese New Year open house in Tawau today.

The group handed their Gerakan membership application forms to Sabah BN chairman and Chief Minister Musa Aman who passed them over to Liew.

Leong said they had lost confidence in the party leadership who were only good at talking and incapable of delivering their promises.

He said only BN was capable of bringing development to the people via the 1Malaysia concept introduced by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

Musa said the resignation of DAP leaders proved that the opposition had failed to solve the people's problems and rendered them irrelevant to Sabah.

He was confident that more DAP leaders and members would leave the party to join BN component parties.

Meanwhile, Liew said the resignation was a positive sign that BN could recapture Sri Tanjung state seat from DAP.

He said the Chinese community had realised that only BN could bring them development and champion the people.

-Bernama