Pengerusi Perhubungan PKR Sabah, Pajudin Nordin keluar PKR dan sertai UMNO

Pajudin (kiri) bersalaman dengan Ketua Menteri Sabah di Sri Gaya, Kota Kinabalu, Sabtu 5 Feb 2011

Politik Sabah memang sukar diramal dan pasti ada saja perkara luar dugaan yang berlaku.

Jam 6 petang Sabtu 5 Februari 2011, bertempat di kediaman rasmi Ketua Menteri Sabah di Sri Gaya, Kota Kinabalu, satu lagi kejutan berlaku dalam sejarah politik Negeri di Bawah Bayu itu.

Tidak sampai sebulan dilantik sebagai Pengerusi Perhubungan Negeri Parti Keadilan Rakyat, PKR Sabah, Pajudin Nordin mengumumkan keluar parti dan menyertai UMNO.

Pengumuman yang menyaksikan PKR Sabah semakin parah itu dibuat dihadapan Ketua Menteri, Datuk Seri Musa Aman di kediaman rasmi Ketua Menteri di Sri Gaya di sini.


Menurut Pajudin keputusan itu dibuat selepas beliau hilang kepercayaan kepada kepimpinan PKR khususnya Penasihat PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Pajudin yang merupakan antara ahli terawal menyertai PKR di Sabah berkata, punca utamanya keluar parti itu disebabkan amat kecewa dengan kepimpinan Anwar yang gagal membela hak rakyat Sabah.

"Saya berasa kecewa dengan kepimpinan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan Presiden PKR Datuk Seri Wan Azizah kerana mereka nampak memperbodohkan pemimpin-pemimpin PKR di negeri Sabah.

"Akibat daripada apa yang dilakukan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan juga Presiden terhadap negeri Sabah ini maka saya menganggap PKR di Sabah sudah tidak relevan untuk kita jadikan sebagai satu parti masa hadapan atau parti yang akan menuju ke Putrajaya," katanya.

Pajuddin yang juga Naib Ketua Cabang Tuaran telah dipilih oleh Presiden PKR, Datin Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail bagi mengisi jawatan Pengerusi Perhubungan Negeri (PPN) Sabah, menggantikan Ahmad Thamrin Jaini pada 10 Januari lalu.

Sebelum dilantik ke jawatan itu lulusan Tahfiz ini pernah memegang jawatan Exco Angkatan Muda PKR Pusat dan Ketua Angkatan Muda PKR negeri.

Menurut Pajuddin beliau telah menyerahkan surat perletakan jawatan melalui khidmat pesanan ringkas (SMS) dan melalui faksimili kepada kepimpinan PKR Pusat petang tadi.
Dalam pada itu beliau berkata, semua ahli PKR Sabah semakin menyedari helah Anwar yang hanya pandai menabur janji kosong untuk mengutamakan hak rakyat Sabah tetapi bertindak sebaliknya.

Sehubungan itu katanya, lebih ramai lagi ahli PKR Sabah termasuk beberapa pemimpin cabang akan keluar daripada parti itu dalam tempoh terdekat.

Difahamkan Wan Azizah akan datang ke Sabah dalam masa terdekat bagi menyelesaikan kemelut PKR Sabah selepas beberapa cabang parti itu menolak pelantikan Pajudin baru-baru ini.

Ini pula kenyataan Datuk Seri Musa Aman, Ketua Menteri Sabah mengenai tindakan keluar parti saudara Pajudin.

1. Hari ini adalah satu petanda bahawa PKR dan Pakatan Rakyat (PR) sudah tidak relevan lagi.

2. Satu demi satu pemimpin mereka keluar parti.

3. Terbukti Dato’ Seri Anwar hanya pandai menabur janji dan mempergunakan orang lain untuk kepentingan peribadi beliau iaitu menawan Putrajaya dan seterusnya menjadi Perdana Menteri.

4. Saya menyeru rakyat Sabah untuk menolak PKR dan Pakatan Rakyat yang nyata sebuah parti yang hanya memperbodoh-bodohkan rakyat Sabah.

5. Kemasukan saudara Pajudin Nordin ke dalam UMNO adalah atas kehendak beliau sendiri atas kesedaran bahawa hanya BN sahajalah yang mampu membela nasib rakyat dan negeri Sabah.

Datuk Dr JEFFREY KITINGAN RESIGNS FROM PKR FOR UNITED BORNEO FRONT’S POLITICAL CAUSE”

PRESS STATEMENT FROM DATUK DR. JEFFREY KITINGAN - 2ND JANUARY 2011

“JEFFREY RESIGNS FROM PKR FOR UBF’S POLITICAL CAUSE”

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah :

Amidst internet rumours and speculations of Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan’s resignation from PKR, a statement was issued late Sunday night, 2nd January 2011, to confirm that Dr. Jeffrey has issued a letter of resignation to the President of PKR, Dato Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, dated the 31st December 2010.

In his statement to the press, Dr. Jeffrey expressed his disappointment that rumours should circulate distastefully on his decision prior to a planned press conference to announce his decision properly to the public after the New Year celebrations.

“I had hoped for everyone to enjoy their New Year celebrations and for the festivities to settle down before I make the announcement of my resignation from PKR. For speculators to jump on this and character assassinate without giving me a chance to even enjoy the New Year celebrations with my family and friends is distasteful and without manners,” Dr. Jeffrey said.

He added, “It was not an easy decision but it is the one I must inevitably make in the light of what I must do for the people of Sabah and Sarawak. I have taken many boats on my political journey and every time the boat veers off course and goes further away from my planned destination, I must bid the boatman farewell. For, I realised in Malaysian politics that at the end of the day, the destination was never meant to head towards Borneo."

" As a politician, you choose your vehicles for an agenda you believe in. It is hard to choose a vehicle when the Borneo Agenda is never really paramount or obvious. For whatever anyone may choose to say, I believe strongly that leaving PKR is something I must do to focus on what I have started in the United Borneo Front. "

"As a leader of this pressure group I will push for the Borneo Agenda across all divides to infiltrate the manifestoes and agenda of every political parties that consider Sabah and Sarawak to be equal partners to the Federation. This will remain a non-political pressure group led by individuals like myself who will push for a new political model even after I’m no longer around.”

Dr. Jeffrey also confirmed that if he is to form or join another political party it will be “a boat that will steer the way towards an autonomous Sabah and Sarawak which will bear the ticket towards a Borneo Agenda and the ideals of the United Borneo Front and one in which all his staunch and loyal supporters can say is a boat genuinely and proudly made in Borneo.”

“I remain very close friends with the PKR party leadership and part amicably with no hard feelings. I remain fully committed to the ideals and demands I have espoused in the United Borneo Front and that I intend to approach the negotiating table for our special rights and privileges with both the BN and PR West Malaysian alliances from a strong and new Borneo alliance platform. Whether BN or PR forms the next government remains largely irrelevant to the Borneo states if the Borneo Agenda remains irrelevant to them."

"If we continue to be disenfranchised and denied the right to participate equally in the political decision making process in parliament and denied the right to review our share of the oil revenue, there is no sense in this type of political allegiance because Sabahans and Sarawakians are then left fighting for the scraps and not having a chunk of a very large cake. "

"To take what is rightfully ours without a chance of veto and then having the audacity to call us poor is nonsense and I will not stand up for this as a politician. The boat is irrelevant as long as your journey is made towards your desired destination. I am for Borneo and remain steadfastly loyal to that cause for the rest of my life. I will decide my political future in due course,” he concluded in his statement.



Dr Jeffrey, younger brother of Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) President and former Sabah Chief Minister, Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan, made his political debut in the 1994 State General Election. He was then Director of the Yayasan Sabah (Sabah Foundation), a powerful post eyed by many since its inception during Usno time in the early 1970s until today.

Standing on a PBS ticket, he won in the election for the Bingkor seat and continued to be YS Director while also playing a pivotal role in Institute of Development Studies (IDS), think-tank of the PBS State Government.

Soon after the collaspe of the PBS government barely weeks after the election, Jeffrey was supposed to have been a founder leader of Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS). But things apparently did not work out the way he had expected it and split ways with eventual PBRS President Tan Sri Joseph Kurup.

He then joined Parti Akar headed by former PBS Deputy President and former Deputy Chief Minister the late Datuk Mark Koding.

When Koding announced his retirement from politics in order to continue his studies in Australia, he meant to hand over the party to Jeffrey.

But Akar Sec-Gen Tan Sri (then Datuk) Pandikar Amin protested and challenged Koding's decision and Jeffrey found himself out in the cold again.

Jeffrey, who was made a Senator and Federal Deputy Minister by former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad during his tenure with Akar, then "returned" to PBRS. Before long, he challenged Kurup for the party presidency. Kurup won and Jeffrey, was again out in the cold and rejoined PBS headed by his brother.

Jeffrey then applied to join Umno but it did not materialise, with some quarters even claiming that he applied twice, thus causing confusion at the party headquarters.

Frustrated, Jeffrey ended up in PKR this time. It did not take him long to be involved in a PKR Sabah leadership tussle with Hj Ansari Abdullah.

To resolve the crisis, party de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim made him a party Vice-President.

All the best Datuk Dr Jeffrey..

Pilihanraya kecil DUN Behrang dan Changkat Jering, Perak???

Selepas Permatang Pauh dan Kuala Terengganu, nampaknya satu lagi pilihanraya kecil akan diadakan di negara ini, kali ini melibatkan DUN Behrang dan Changkat Jering, di Perak.

Ia berpunca perletakan jawatan sebagai wakil rakyat oleh 2 ADUN kawasan terbabit – Jamaludin Mat Radzi (Behrang) dan Mohd Osman Jailu (Changkat Jering) dari Parti Keadilan Rakyat, PKR, berkuat kuasa jam 5.45 petang tadi Ahad 1 Februari 2009.

Mereka dilaporkan menyerahkan surat perletakan jawatan sebagai ADUN kepada Speaker DUN Perak, V. Sivakumar.

Sivakumar dalam satu kenyataan dikeluarkan petang tadi berkata beliau akan memaklumkan perkembangan terbaru itu kepada Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya, SPR, esok.

Mengikut perlembagaan, pilihanraya kecil perlu diadakan dalam tempoh 60 hari daripada tarikh sesuatu kerusi DUN atau Parlimen dikosongkan.

Perletakan jawatan Jamaludin dan Mohd Osman itu menamatkan spekulasi mengenai kedudukan dan status mereka setelah dilaporkan ‘ghaib’ sejak 5 hari lalu.

Siang tadi sebelum pengumuman itu dibuat, khabar angin bertiup kencang kononnya kedua dua mereka sudah keluar dari PKR dan menyertai UMNO.

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ketika merasmikan sambutan hari wilayah di ibu negara siang tadi turut mengesahkan ada Adun pembangkang menyertai BN.

Perkembangan itu memaksa Menteri Besar Perak, Datuk Seri Mohd Nizar Jamaludin mempengerusikan mesyuarat tergempar bagi membincangkan perkembangan itu, hari ini.

Jamaludin, 52 tahun dan Mohd Osman, 57 tahun, adalah Exco Perak dengan Jamaludin memegang potfolio Exco pembangunan usahawan dan koperasi manakala Mohd Osman selaku exco NGO dan pelancongan.

2 pilihanraya kecil di Perak ini dilihat amat penting dan signifikan, berdasarkan kedudukan semasa kerusi DUN Perak, selepas pilihanraya umum ke 12, Mac tahun lalu.

Selepas pilihanraya itu, Pakatan Rakyat mengambil alih teraju kerajaan negeri apabila menang 31 daripada 59 kerusi DUN, berbanding BN yang hanya menang 28 kerusi.

Majoriti tipis 3 kerusi yang memihak kepada Pakatan Rakyat itu bertambah kepada kelebihan satu lagi kerusi atau bersamaan Pakatan Rakyat – 32 kerusi dan BN – 27 kerusi setelah ADUN Bota, Datuk Nasarudin Hashim, keluar UMNO dan masuk PKR, 25 januari lalu.

Namun dengan tindakan 2 ADUN PKR meletak jawatan itu hari ini, kedudukan kerusi terkini DUN Perak pada 1 Februari 2009 adalah Pakatan Rakyat – 30 kerusi manakala BN – 27 kerusi.

Andainya BN menang dan merampas semula kedua dua kerusi DUN Behrang dan Changkat Jering dalam pilihanraya kecil itu, maka kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat hanya mempunyai kelebihan majoriti dalam DUN yang amat tipis iaitu 1 kerusi kerana kerusi DUN BN perak kini 29 berbanding Pakatan Rakyat 30 kerusi, itupun jika perkara itu berlaku.

Namun jika 2 kerusi itu turut dimenangi semula atau berjaya dipertahankan Pakatan Rakyat, maka Pakatan Rakyat masih agak selesa dengan kelebihan 5 kerusi iaitu 32 kerusi berbanding BN – 27 kerusi.

Itu secara matematiknya.

Tren Pengundi sukar dijangka.

Namun terbukti, 2 pilihanraya kecil sebelum ini memihak kepada Pakatan Rakyat.

PKR menerusi Penasihatnya Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berjaya mengekalkan kerusi Parlimen Permatang Pauh dengan majoriti lebih besar menewaskan calon BN Datuk Ariff Shah Omar Shah.

Pada pilihanraya kecil Parlimen Kuala Terengganu 17 Januari lalu, PAS menerusi Abdul Wahid Endut, berjaya merampas semula kerusi itu daripada BN.