Intrigue continues in PBDS leadership struggle

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Sarawak's Dayak-based party is thrown further into confusion with secretary-general Stanley Ajang Batok urging leader Leo Moggie not to quit. This comes in the wake of two separate teams vowing to contest for the party's top posts later this year.

Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) secretary-general Stanley Ajang Batok knew exactly what he was doing when two days ago he made a public statement calling for their party chief Leo Moggie to continue to lead the party.

Ajang, the state assemblyperson for Belaga, had said the "Dayak community does not have many good and capable leaders" and that the community should, therefore, try to retain them "just as the

state does not want to lose the leadership of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud".

"We pray and hope that God will change his (Moggie's) mind and that he will continue to stay. We have tried to persuade him many times and we will persuade him further," the PBDS secretary-general had told a local English broadsheet The Borneo Post.

Party's outspoken Miri division head Richard Wil, a businessman, was quick to blast Ajang for making such a statement o­n the issue.

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