KOTA KINABALU : Parti
Bersatu Sabah Deputy President, Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili has clarified
that he was merely referring to the history of Sabah politics and stating the
facts involved when commenting on 'political leap-frogging' in Sabah.
In a statement here today,
he said he had never intended to hurt or attack any personalities and neither
was he targeting any individual when commenting on the recent action of three
Barisan Nasional members in Sabah who defected to the opposition.
The science, technology and
innovation minister was referring to a news report on his comments on BN
leaders Datuk Seri Lajim Ukin, Datuk Wilfred Bumburing and Datuk Maijol Mahap
who recently jumped ship.
Ongkili was asked yesterday
by reporters on whether there would be a repeat of the scenario after the 1994
state polls when several prominent Sabah politicians had left the
then-opposition PBS to defect to Barisan Nasional.
“In naming those who had indeed
defected in the 1994 political episode of Sabah, I did not have malice towards
any leaders. I was purely illustrating how during that episode in the 1990s the
people of Sabah had reacted towards politicians who had crossed over,” he said.
(Bernama)
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