Najib didn’t change Sabah, two-party system did

comments     Chan Foong Hin     Published     Updated

COMMENT Urban Well-being, Housing and Local Government Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan’s statement that Najib Abdul Razak is the one and only prime minister who has brought changes to Sabah is totally misleading.

Instead, the recent political scenario with the emergence of a two-party system (BN vs Pakatan Rakyat), especially in Peninsular Malaysia, has forced this lame duck prime minister to bring changes to Sabah, in order to woo the support from the state that he described as BN’s “fixed deposit”.

Umno leaders never perceived Sabah as a priority area in the past, as they enjoyed unchallenged power, with support in the peninsula enough to keep Umno at the helm.

Sabah, in the far, far east, is too remote a region that Umno preferred to control through its proxies and stooges in the 1970s and 1980s, until then opposition PBS came up to defeat these Umno allies...

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