Pairin Kitingan. belum tiba masanya bagi saya melepaskan jawatan Presiden PBS

Pengasas dan Presiden PBS dan juga Huguan Siou Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan

Presiden parti Bersatu Sabah, PBS Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan berkata belum tiba masanya bagi beliau untuk melepaskan jawatan presiden Parti itu yang disandangnya sejak 26 tahun lalu.

Sebaliknya beliau masih bersedia bekerja dan berkhidmat untuk rakyat.

“saya telah dinasihatkan bahawa belum masanya untuk saya bersara. saya bekerja keras untuk memastikan diri saya sihat dan masih berupaya untuk berkhidmat kepada rakyat” kata beliau kepada media setibanya di lapangan terbang antarabangsa Kota Kinabalu, dari Kuala Lumpur pada petang Selasa, 14 Jun 2011.

Tan Sri Pairin atau Huguan Siou bermaksud pemimpin agung Kadazan Dusun, diminta mengulas laporan media kononnya beliau bercadang untuk bersara dan merancang melakukan proses peralihan kuasa dalam parti kepada Timbalan Presiden PBS, Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili yang juga menteri Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi Malaysia.


Dr Maximus Johnity Ongkili - Timbalan Presiden PBS

Kepada kemungkinan samada beliau bersedia mempertahankan jawatannya jika dicabar dalam kongres parti Jun tahun depan, Pairin berkata biarlah delegasi parti menentukannya.

Pairin berkata hubungannya dengan Dr Maximus dalam parti ketika ini juga amat baik.

“amat baik, dia rakan saya dalam parti dan orang nombor dua saya. dia juga pemimpin kanan dan mempunyai banyak pengalaman bersama saya. kami mengetahui kekuatan dan kelemahan kami. oleh itu kami semua di dalam parti, sudah bersedia untuk apa sahaja.” Katanya.

Menurut Pairin, spekulasi mengenai persaraannya yang disiarkan media itu, tidak memeranjatkan.

Namun beliau tidak tahu dari mana asalnya sumber berita itu kerana beliau tidak pernah membuat sebarang pengumuman mengenainya.

DIlapangan terbang antarabangsa kota kinabalu, petang tadi, ratusan pemimpin dan penyokong p-b-s turut berada di lapangan terbang bagi menyatakan sokongan kepada Tan Sri Pairin.

Antaranya timbalan presiden Datuk dr Yee Moh Chai, Alimudin Kaida, ketua pemuda datuk Jahid Jahim dan ketua wanita datuk Jamilah Sulaiman serta ahli majlis tertinggi PBS.

Ada juga membawa kain rentang menyokong kepimpinan Pairin.

Pairin, 70 tahun, mengasaskan PBS pada 1985 dan kekal menjadi Presiden Parti itu sehingga sekarang.

PBS pernah menerajui kerajaan negeri Sabah mulai 1985 hingga 1994 dan pernah menjadi pembangkang pada 1990 sebelum kembali menyertai Barisan Nasional, pada 2002.

Pairin juga adalah “huguan siou” atau pemimpin agung Kadazan-Dusun dan menerajui persatuan kebudayaan kadazan-dusun, KDCA sebagai Presiden.

Kini beliau adalah Timbalan Ketua Menteri dalam kabinet Sabah yang diterajui Datuk Seri Musa Aman.

Pairin adalah ADUN Tambunan sejak 1976 atau 35 tahun lalu dan juga Ahli Parlimen Keningau.


Datuk Jahid Jahim, Ketua Pemuda PBS

Dalam perkembangan berkaitan, ketua pemuda PBS, Datuk Jahid Jahim berkata agenda peralihan kuasa kepimpinan parti, tidak timbul sama sekali.

Ini kerana Pairin mendapat sokongan daripada kesemua 61 bahagian parti dari seluruh negeri.

Dan lebih penting, Pairin adalah seorang pemimpin yang boleh menyesuaikan diri kepada perubahan situasi dan pembangunan.

Sehubungan itu, Huguan Siou akan terus relevan dan dihormati.

Dan berikut pula adalah berita oleh Bernama yang membawa kepada spekulasi politik terbaru yang bertiup kencang di Sabah negeri di bawah bayu. Beritanya dalam bahasa Inggeris disiarkan oleh The Star pada Selasa 14 Jun 2011.

Talk of change in PBS leadership

KUALA LUMPUR: Speculation has been rife over the past two weeks that Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) may see changes while its top leader prepares a transition plan.

The talk became intense after PBS deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili reportedly shifted his political base to his Tambunan hometown, where his family is said to be building a big house on ancestral land.

The planned mansion is just a stone’s throw away from the house of his uncle and PBS president, Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan.

Pairin, 71, is currently Tambu­nan assemblyman and MP for Kenin­gau and is said to be contemplating winding down his public roles as he has been the Tambunan representative for the past 35 years, including those years when he was in Berjaya.

He is also the Huguan Siou or paramount leader of the Kadazandusun, a Deputy Chief Minis­­ter-cum-state Minister of Rural Development, president of the Kadazandusun Cultural Asso­ciation (KDCA) and sits in many committees, including the Asean Eminent Persons Comm­ittee.

Dr Ongkili, 58, being a senior deputy president of PBS and also deputy president of KDCA, seems to be the obvious choice to take over the helm, should Pairin decide to wind down his role.

However, in an interview with Bernama, Dr Ongkili said the party was not heading towards a change of guard as Pairin had not indicated he would step down as party president.

“There is no issue about the party leadership. I will continue serving as deputy president,” he said.

Political analyst and Universiti Malaysia Sabah lecturer Dr Bilcher Bala agreed that the current PBS leadership was still very much relevant.

“Huguan Siou (Pairin) is still healthy. He still can lead PBS for another term. Like PBB (Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu) president Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud,” he said.

He said should Pairin decide to step down, it would put the party in a difficult position as to who should succeed him, a situation similar to the PBB on who should take over from Taib.

But observers say Dr Ongkili, who is also Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation and who has held the Kota Marudu parliamentary seat since 1995, is definitely the front runner to take over from Pairin should the latter decide to retire.

Dr Ongkili has been a four term MP and is still popular among the party grassroots, they said.

In the 1995 general election, he was pitted against another uncle Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, then with the Barisan Nasional (BN), but Maximus won by garnering 64% of the total votes cast. — Bernama

Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai appointed new Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah

Datuk Dr. Yee Moh Chai was born on 25 May 1955. He is married to Vicky Lai Nyat Yin, a practising lawyer and they have 5 children.

Datuk Dr. Yee is currently a member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Api-Api constituency.

He is currently one of the Deputy President of the Parti Bersatu Sabah, PBS and also heads the PBS Api-Api Division.

He is both a medical doctor and lawyer by background and yet ventures into politics, a unique feat in the history of Sabah.

Prior to his appointment as the Minister of Resource and Information Technology in the Sabah Cabinet since March 2004, he was practising as an Advocate and Solicitor with Dr. Yee and Associates.

Dr. Yee holds a LLB (Hons) degree and MB BCh degree from the United Kingdom.

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KOTA KINABALU 23rd March 2011 :

Parti Bersatu Sabah, PBS Deputy President, Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai has been appointed as Sabah’s new deputy chief minister for the Chinese quota.

Dr Yee who is alco Minister of Resource and Information Technology, replaces Datuk Peter Pang En Yin, who was removed exactly a week ago on 16th March 2011.

Dr Yee’s appointment, which will represent the Chinese community, was announced by Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman after the state’s weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday 23rd March 2011.

Musa said :

" we have thoroughly considered the matter from every perspective, in this instance the priority of what would be the best for the people, in this particular case the Chinese community was what took precedence. We are confident that his appointment will be welcomed positively"

PBS now has two deputy chief ministers; the other being Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan.

Pang, who quit his vice-president’s post in LDP and joined Sabah Gerakan on March 15, has however been retained by Musa as Youth and Sports Minister.

All the best sir...

Batu Sapi MP Datuk Edmund Chong Ket Wah of Parti Bersatu Sabah died in a road accident in Kota Kinabalu. He was 54.

Update : 11st October 2010 (Source - Bernama)

The Barisan Nasional Bacbenchers Club, BNBBC wants the Home Ministry to investigate thoroughly the cause of the road accident on Saturday 9th October 2010, which claimed the life of Batu Sapi's Member of Parliament, Datuk Edmund Chong Ket Wah.

BNBBC Chairman, Datuk Tiong King Sing said they were not convinced by the many explanations on the cause of the crash.

BNBBC will also write a letter to Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Tun Hussein for a thorough probe.

Earlier, Datuk Tiong led 11 members of the BNBBC to pay their last respect to the late Datuk Edmund at the Fook Lu Siew Funeral Parlour in Jalan Tuaran.

The 11 members of BNBBC present were Datuk Muhammad Aziz (Sri Gading), Nancy Shukri (Batang Sadong), Datuk Ismail Abdul Mutallib (Maran), Datuk Ismail Kasim (Arau), Tan Ah Eng (Gelang Patah), Datuk Abdul Rahman Bakri (Sabak Bernam), Senator Pau Chiong Ung as well as Deputy Education Minister, Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong, PBS President and Keningau MP Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan and Putatan MP Datuk Dr Makin Marcus Mojigoh.


The Mercedes that collided with Datuk Edmund Chong Ket Wah's superbike



Datuk Edmund Chong Ket Wah's Kawasaki 750cc Turbo Superbike lying on the road after the collision




Source The Star Online / News Asiaone 9 October 2010

KOTA KINABALU: Batu Sapi MP Edmund Chong Ket Wah of Parti Bersatu Sabah died in a road accident in Kota Kinabalu. He was 54.

He is believed to have been riding a Kawasaki 750 bike along the Sembulan-Tanjung Aru road when he was involved in a crash with an on-coming Mercedez car at about 11.40am Saturday, 9th October 2010.

Chong, was heading for the city on a Kawasaki 750cc motorcycle when the accident occurred just before the Sutera Harbour traffic light at 11.40am.

District police chief Assistant Commissioner Ahmad Sofi Zakaria said that both vehicles were travelling in the same direction when the accident occurred.

"There was a collision and there were dents on the front right side of the Mercedes (left).

"We are investigating how the accident happened."

Chong died on the spot. His body was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital here for a post-mortem.

The impact of the crash threw Chong off his bike. He landed on the road going in the opposite direction while the bike landed 30m away on the road shoulder.

Chong, who is in his second term as Batu Sapi MP, was born on April 9, 1956, in Sandakan. He was married to Linda Tsen Thau Lin and leaves four children.

A consultant engineer, Chong was the PBS treasurer-general and its Elopura division chairman.

A well-liked and humble person, Chong won the Batu Sapi parliamentary seat in the 2004 and 2008 general elections.

He was appointed Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board chairman for Sabah last year.

His death came as a shock as just 16 hours earlier, he was with PBS leaders at the finals of the party's President Cup football championship at Likas Stadium.

Minutes after the accident, Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman arrived at the mortuary.

Senior PBS leaders, including President, Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan, deputy president cum Federal Minister of Science, Technology and Inovation Datuk Dr MAximus Johnity Ongkili, deputy president and Sabah's Resource Development and Information Technology Minister Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai, were also seen at the hospital.

Some leaders also went to the accident scene which is near the 5 Star Sutera Harbour Resort and Grace Ville luxury apartments complexes.

Also at the scene were secretary-general Datuk Henrynus Amin, Youth chief Datuk Jahid Jahim and supreme council member Datuk James Vitalis.

Chong was said to have been on his way back from Kota Kinabalu International Airport to his house in Likas after buying his air ticket to attend the Parliament sitting tomorrow.

Putatan MP Datuk Dr Marcus Mojigoh said Chong had called him to say that he had bought his ticket and would leave for Kuala Lumpur today.

Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman described Chong''s death as a great loss for the people and state of Sabah.

"He was a dedicated and committed leader in discharging his responsibilities as the Member of Parliament for Batu Sapi," he told reporters when approached at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Musa, who is the State Barisan Nasional (BN) Chairman, said he and his family extended condolences to Chong''s family and PBS.

PBS President Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan, who was also at the hospital, said: "It''s very sad for the state and the country, especially PBS. He was my close friend."

This tragic event triggers yet another by-election in Malaysia.

Kecelaruan Politik di Perak pernah berlaku di Sabah...

Ketika ini tidak dapat dipastikan, samada DUN Perak telah dibubarkan oleh Menteri Besar Perak ataupun BN kembali berkuasa di Perak setelah beberapa ADUN pembangkang menyertai BN.

Kecelaruan politik berikutan isu lompat melompat parti yang sedang melanda Perak sekarang, pernah berlaku di Sabah pada 1994, lebih tepat 15 tahun lalu.

Presiden PBS Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin Kitingan




Sejurus selepas pilihanraya Dewan Undangan Negeri Sabah berakhir pada Februari 1994, parti pemerintah ketika itu Parti Bersatu Sabah pimpinan Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin Kitingan berjaya mengekalkan kuasa.

Namun majoritinya begitu tipis sekali – hanya 2 kerusi memisahkan PBS dengan seteru utamanya Barisan Nasional, BN.

PBS menang 25 daripada 48 kerusi DUN Sabah, manakala BN menang 23 kerusi.

Ekoran majoriti tipis itu, Datuk Seri Pairin melakukan beberapa langkah berjaga jaga.

Antaranya menunggu lebih 24 jam di depan pintu masuk Istana Negeri Kota Kinabalu untuk mengangkat sumpah sebagai Ketua Menteri Sabah.

Ia bagi mengelak sebarang halangan ke atas usaha melantiknya semula sebagai Ketua Menteri.

Kesemua 25 wakil rakyat PBS yang baru memenangi kerusi DUN masing masing juga dikumpulkan di Sri Gaya, kediaman rasmi Ketua Menteri Sabah.

Ia bagi mengelak cubaan melompat parti atau keluar parti untuk menyertai BN.

Selepas mengangkat sumpah di Istana Negeri, Datuk Seri Pairin menamakan anggota kabinetnya dan ini termasuklah pemimpin kanan PBS seperti Tan Sri Bernard Dompok dan Tan Sri Joseph Kurup.

Namun ekoran majoriti terlalu tipis itu – hanya 2 kerusi, kedudukan kerajaan negeri Sabah di bawah PBS, amat rapuh dan boleh runtuh pada bila bila masa, andainya ada 1 atau 2 ADUNnya melompat parti.

Kekhuatiran dan kebimbangan Datuk Seri Pairin itu akhirnya menjadi kenyataan tidak sampai 3 minggu selepas kerajaan negeri di bawah PBS dibentuk.

3 ADUN termasuk seorang ADUN dilantik, mengistyharkan keluar PBS dan menyertai UMNO.

Mereka ialah Adun Klias – Datuk Seri Lajim Ukin, Adun Kemabong – Datuk Rubin Balang dan ADUN dilantik dari Labuan – Datuk Zaini Isa.

Ekoran tindakan mereka itu, PBS hanya mempunyai 23 kerusi berbanding 25 kerusi DUN yang kini dipegang BN.

Ekoran kemelut politik itu, satu rombongan Adun PBS diketuai Tan Sri Dompok telah diarah Datuk Pairin ke Kuala Lumpur untuk menemui Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dan timbalannya ketika itu Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim bagi mencari penyelesaian konflik politik Sabah.

Namun mereka juga akhirnya bertindak keluar PBS dan mengumumkan menubuhkan sebuah parti baru iaitu Parti Demokratik Sabah, PDS yang kemudiannya dikenali sebagai Pertubuhan Pasok Momogun Kadazan-Dusun-Murut Bersatu atau parti UPKO.


Presiden UPKO Tan Sri Bernard Dompok



Dompok dipilih presiden UPKO sehinggalah sekarang dan kini memegang jawatan menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri.

Manakala Tan Sri Kurup turut mengistyharkan keluar PBS dan menubuhkan Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah atau PBRS.

Presiden PBRS Tan Sri Joseph Kurup

UPKO dan PBRS kemudiannya telah diterima menganggotai komponen BN.

Ekoran tindakan keluar parti beramai ramai itu, maka PBS hanya mempunyai 6 atau 7 ADUN yang setia kepada perjuangan parti itu.

Akhirnya, Datuk Pairin yang juga Huguan Siou atau pemimpin agung masyarakat Kadazan Dusun, bertindak membubarkan Dewan Undangan Negeri pada Mac 1994 untuk membolehkan satu lagi pilihanraya DUN Sabah diadakan untuk mendapatkan mandat baru rakyat.

Namun pembubaran itu tidak diperkenan Istana Negeri Kota Kinabalu.

Akhirnya Datuk Pairin terpaksa akur dan meletakkan jawatan sebagai Ketua Menteri Sabah.

Tan Sri Sakaran Dandai (kini Tun) kemudiannya mengangkat sumpah sebagai Ketua Menteri Sabah yang baru di bawah kerajaan BN.

Kerajaan negeri di bawah PBS tumbang meskipun menang pilihanraya DUN Sabah…!!!!

Semuanya akibat tindakan melompat parti.

Namun proses peralihan kuasa daripada PBS ke BN berlangsung dengan aman tanpa sebarang kekacauan atau keganasan dicetuskan penyokong PBS.

Malah Tun Sakaran sendiri memimpin tangan Datuk Seri Pairin keluar dari pejabat ketua menteri di tingkat 27 bangunan Yayasan Sabah, selepas majlis serah tugas Ketua Menteri Sabah disempurnakan.

Pada pilihanraya DUN Sabah 1999, PBS cuba merampas semula tampuk kerajaan negeri daripada BN menerusi proses demokrasi rakyat namun hasrat itu tidak kesampaian apabila PBS hanya menang 17 daripada 48 kerusi DUN.

Pada pilihanraya itu, setiap calon PBS diwajibkan menanda tangani surat akujanji yang bermaksud akan meletakkan jawatan sebagai ADUN sekiranya menang tetapi melompat parti.

Selepas pilihanraya 1999, 6 ADUN PBS turut mengambil tindakan keluar parti.

Namun surat akujanji yang ditandatangai tidak diperkenan Speaker, sekaligus tidak membawa kepada pilihanraya kecil di 6 kawasan DUN itu.

Ketika pemerintahan PBS, parti itu pernah mengusulkan untuk mewujudkan udang undang anti lompat – namun ditolak kerana bercanggah dengan kebebasan berpersatuan sepertimana termaktub di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

PBS kembali semula ke pangkuan BN pada 2002.

Apapun, tiada undang undang juga yang menghalang seseorang wakil rakyat daripada melepaskan jawatan sebagai ADUN atau Ahli Parlimen secara sukarela.

Ini terbukti apabila pada 31 Julai 2008, Presiden Parti Keadilan Rakyat, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail meletakkan jawatan sebagai Ahli Parlimen Permatang Pauh yang disandangnya sejak 1999.

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim kemudiannya menang kerusi Parlimen itu pada pilihanraya kecil Permatang Pauh, 26 Ogos 2008.

Senario yang berlaku di Perak hari ini berpunca tindakan melompat parti dan ternyata melukakan hati pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat khsususnya Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Ironinya, Datuk Seri Anwar tahun lalu pernah mewar warkan bahawa Pakatan Rakyat akan mengambil alih pemerintahan kerajaan Persekutuan menjelang 16 September 2008 menerusi tindakan melompat parti sekurang kurangnya 30 Ahli Parlimen BN.

Kini sekarang, siapa pula yang melompat????