She bases her bright outlook for the Pakatan Rakyat coalition on the "many transgressions in the state" by the ruling BN and the people's apparent desire for a change of government.
If BN strongholds in Peninsular Malaysia can fall to the opposition alliance, she said, there was no reason why the party could not repeat the feat in Sabah, which she described as "a much, much easier target than the BN strongholds in Peninsular Malaysia that we have taken"."Kuantan and Pahang are BN strongholds," said Fuziah (left). "Yet we won Kuantan in 2008, despite the BN taking all three state seats in the parliamentary constituency."
She was speaking at a Chinese New Year charity dinner last night, in aid of Kota Kinabalu division chief Christina Liew's Society of Hope. PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail was guest of honour, with Sabah Progressive Party (Sapp) president Yong Teck Lee as a guest.
Sharing her personal experience in Kuantan, where she suffered three successive defeats, Fuziah said the people finally told her that they would give her a chance to prove herself in Parliament, and, she claimed, they "have not been disappointed".
"Miracles do happen," Fuziah said in urging Sabahans to search their conscience and vote for the future of their children and grandchildren. The cries of the Malays and other children in Peninsular Malaysia, she said, were no different from that of the Kadazan, Dusun, Murat, Chinese and other children in Sabah.
"As a mother and a grandmother, I feel for the children, all our children," said Fuziah. "No child should go hungry in this country and in this rich state, which is now the poorest in Malaysia."
'We need to take Putrajaya'
Taking power in the states was not enough, she said, making references to the fall of the Perak Pakatan government and "trouble-making" by the BN in Selangor. "We need to take Putrajaya and form the federal government."
She pledged that a PR federal government would raise Sabah's royalty from oil and gas to 20 percent and set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to look into the presence of the 1.7 million illegal immigrants in the state.
Wan Azizah in her address pooh-poohed the prophets of doom who were convinced that "the party in Sabah would soon consist of only Anwar Ibrahim (the de facto PKR chief), Azizah and Christina".
"Let me tell them that I was born in the year of the dragon," said Wan Azizah. "Once the dragon awakens, it will be breathing fire. Christina was also born in the year of the dragon."
Tian Chua (left), in a speech full of fire and brimstone, made references to the on-going crisis in Egypt and the past dictatorships in the Philippines and Indonesia, and cautioned against reading too much into the fate of PKR or Anwar Ibrahim.
"We have reached a stage in this country where there will be always someone fighting the government of the day," said Tian Chua. "Today it may be Anwar Ibrahim and PKR. Tomorrow, it will be another Anwar Ibrahim and another PKR. There will always be an Anwar Ibrahim and a PKR in this country."
Electoral fraud was among the themes in Liew's speech which dealt at some length on the grinding poverty in Sabah, among others. She urged those present to promote the idea that it was time to vote men and women of integrity into government.
One way was for the Election Commission to accept inking the fingers of voters to prevent a person from voting many times, Liew said, citing the use of the indelible ink in India and Indonesia. By Joe Fernandez
Taking power in the states was not enough, she said, making references to the fall of the Perak Pakatan government and "trouble-making" by the BN in Selangor. "We need to take Putrajaya and form the federal government."
She pledged that a PR federal government would raise Sabah's royalty from oil and gas to 20 percent and set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to look into the presence of the 1.7 million illegal immigrants in the state.
Wan Azizah in her address pooh-poohed the prophets of doom who were convinced that "the party in Sabah would soon consist of only Anwar Ibrahim (the de facto PKR chief), Azizah and Christina".
"Let me tell them that I was born in the year of the dragon," said Wan Azizah. "Once the dragon awakens, it will be breathing fire. Christina was also born in the year of the dragon."Tian Chua (left), in a speech full of fire and brimstone, made references to the on-going crisis in Egypt and the past dictatorships in the Philippines and Indonesia, and cautioned against reading too much into the fate of PKR or Anwar Ibrahim.
"We have reached a stage in this country where there will be always someone fighting the government of the day," said Tian Chua. "Today it may be Anwar Ibrahim and PKR. Tomorrow, it will be another Anwar Ibrahim and another PKR. There will always be an Anwar Ibrahim and a PKR in this country."
Electoral fraud was among the themes in Liew's speech which dealt at some length on the grinding poverty in Sabah, among others. She urged those present to promote the idea that it was time to vote men and women of integrity into government.
One way was for the Election Commission to accept inking the fingers of voters to prevent a person from voting many times, Liew said, citing the use of the indelible ink in India and Indonesia. By Joe Fernandez
PKR is making one mistake after another in Sabah. You can't treat Sabah as you treat West Malaysia. Sabah and Sarawak are different.
ReplyDeletePKR should let Sabah people choose their own leaders to lead the party there. So far, most of the appointment seems to be made from here to the chagrin of Sabah leaders, which has led to the exodus of leaders and members from the party.
After 40 years being in Malaysia and being played out by BN/Umno-led federal government and its stooges in Sarawak and Sabah, East Malaysians do not trust the people from Peninsula.
Many promises made to them by BN has not been kept. In fact, the people there have been worse off than Brunei, which did not join the Federation of Malaysia, in spite of the rich resources the two states have.
They could have opted to stay independent as a British protectorate and worked things out themselves, but their selfish leaders then sold them out to the 'ketuanan' kingdom to their detriment and they are now 'slaves' to Umno.
PKR is just bullshitting the Sabah people!
ReplyDeleteIn Sabah, PKR does not have Muslims backing (seen in the batu sapi by-election), their votes came from the Chinese voters by deception.
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