Jeffrey at political crossroads after Zaid's exit

comments     Joe Fernandez     Published     Updated

ANALYSIS Former Federal Territories chief Zaid Ibrahim’s sudden departure from PKR, under somewhat unhappy circumstances, has caught Sabah strongman Jeffrey Kitingan flat-footed but not entirely without political options.

Zaid, who had banked so much on Sabah and Sarawak to win the PKR deputy presidency, apparently left his allies in the party in a lurch when he quit out of the blue without breathing so much as a word to them.

His critics, and many supporters as well, explain this apparently impulsive quit action on his part as basically due to a fundamental “instability of character” in Zaid. The truth, as usual, may be somewhere in between...

For the rest of this story and more, subscribe for only RM150 a year. If you're already a subscriber, please sign in.

Sign in Subscribe now


Malaysiakini
news and views that matter


Sign In