Interestingly, of late, the media reported that the current Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman has only till March to sit in his office at the Innoprise Building at Teluk Likas, Kota Kinabalu. He is soon to be replaced by Shafie Apdal, currently federal minister for Rural and Regional Development who is also member of Parliament for Semporna.

How reliable these reports are yet to be seen. I’m pretty sure Musa Aman will use whatever resources available at his disposal to avoid this embarrassing moment. If money can buy it for him, that would be no problem but if it is something else beside money than it must be to do with brains.

And this is a war against the prime minister. Musa Aman isn’t a fighter of this nature. A person- to-person encounter on a round table isn’t his game.

If this changing of chief ministers does take place, there is going to be s big problem for Sabah to stay put as a Malaysian state. That this is no less an arbitrary decision than what Dr Mahathir Mohamad did in 1994 - 2003 when he introduced the rotation of chief ministers for Sabah.

Whether Sabahans like it or not, it surely be worth exploring whether this is the kind of arrangement they would like for their next generation to have. Political stability is therefore fluid.

People who are currently in power will have no qualms, some don’t even care so long as their positions not in jeopardy, unlike those in the opposition.

Who cares more about the state? Shafie Apdal has to be nominated as a state assembly candidate in order to be eligible to hold the chief minister’s post. I don’t have many views on this.

Shafie Apdal may comfortably win a by-election in Semporna but elsewhere in the state, he may have to work very hard to win, believe me!