LESS YAKKING AND MORE LISTENING FROM US IN KL?
With slight editing, I produce here a comment by a reader from Sabah:
With all due respect sir, I understand that you, Haris and the rest of the Blue Blitz gang are champions of democracy. However, I think one must also balance that with a little of true Ketuanan Rakyat..not Ketuanan PKR Sabah Division Chiefs...perhaps you may say PKR's business is PKR's business, but Sabahans are only waiting for the opportunity to vote out Barisan with a strong viable opposition. We don't want it to be like in the mid 1980s when we jumped out of the frying pan into the fire by voting in PBS...
A sincere and honest piece of advice. Please understand Sabahans and Sabahan politics. Oftentimes and justly sometimes it is not entirely purely about democracy. Yes the division chiefs in PKR might be supporting Jeffrey...but no matter how much you argue the fact that any luminary politician is tainted, the majority of Sabahan Rakyat will never support this man...not only because of his tainted corrupted past...but because of his inability to lead...and his trouble making antics...
Is there no one else in PKR Sabah that can lead?? What about Christina Liew? Kong Hong Ming? Or even better some new blood??
In Sarawak you have a capable leader in Baru Bian, but
Sabahans are waiting to vote BN out, that's for sure. Even in GE12 from analysis many Sabahans especially in the urban areas voted for the DAP-PKR However PR’s failure to win the seats was because PKR refused to strike a deal with the DAP, that is, for DAP to take the urban seats and PKR to tackle the semi-rural areas. .This resulted in split votes in at least 6-7 state seats, and 4-5 parliamentary seats..
If DAP can bring in new blood I don't see why PKR can't.make an effort. Sabahans will vote in young, educated professional and proactive leaders who fight for principles and humanity, in place of the old guard. Maybe Aladdin’s old lamp’s shelf-life has expired. Urban Sabahans think so. Try putting your ears to the ground and for once listen to us.
Jeseltonite.
Hear ye! Hear ye PKR! Yes, they are all willing, ready and waiting to kick out them out from Sabah ... so what are you waiting for?
ReplyDeleteJust remember west politics is not the same as east politics. This is one good chap who's talking a lot of sense.
I think this is a voice of reason, and well worth the read. He/she makes sense.
ReplyDeleteWe are quite divorced from the reality that is Sabah over here in the peninsula. Many of us don't know anything about their politics at all - except for what the mainstream media feeds us. So, that means we know nothing, right?
I myself wondered at the fuss over Jeffery Kitingan. I do know that he has switched sides so often, watching him is like watching a tennis match in action!
I'm watching and listening now. PKR seems like the only hope on our horizon - for those of us waiting for a strong two-party system here.
I will never pretend to understand politics, and what I see sometimes makes me sick to my stomach. Yet, it is a necessary 'evil'.
I wish them (PKR) well. And I pray they don't fall on their faces and let us all down in the process.
I am a Westie living in the Kadazan heartland, in touch with my wife's relatives over cans of Tiger/Carlsberg/Heineken or whichever is available.
ReplyDeleteI understand their dilemma. They do not have a viable non-BN leader. PKR is finally unraveling and DAP need to work beyond urban.
The closest is SAPP but they are also weak in the heartlands, somehow unable to attract the interior natives being more urban.
UPKO have likely received their 'fixed deposit' from Najib and is fairly satisfied, for now. They are probably the best in the heartlands & interior.
If SAPP & UPKO can find a common ground to work outside BN, there is a 2nd chance for a non-BN coalition for Sabah.
That's it Sabahan. Gua caya lu lah. Just love to see Sabahan fights back!!!
ReplyDeleteWell PKR will now have to format itself to re emerge as a credible opposition. Just got news that Dr. Jeffery Kitingan (who is a tremendous liability to PKR along with his friends) have finally resigned as PKR Vice. Goodness, and thank God! Finally he is out. Hopefully the other guys like Ansari, CHristina and Awang etc will now just give way and let the new bloods come in into the game... hopefully PKR Hq will finally understand, what Sabah needs is fresh and clean leadership not rhetoric and namesake!
ReplyDeleteBernard,
ReplyDeleteCall to mind, " Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win a thousand battles." Sun Tze.
PKR must establish immediately two tactical HQs - one in KK and one in Kuching - with three depts: intelligence, operations and logistics. Keep them small and staff them with bright and bushy-tail staff officers from both East & West Malaysia, who must learn Kadazan and Iban languages respectively. Collect raw info, collate, analyze and disseminate it on time for the leaders to use it and make command decisions. Clear planning guidance must come from KL. Write SOPs to ensure reports come on time in precise and economic English.
The PKR motley of leaders are not really leaders or commanders. Leaders say, "Come on" and Commanders say, "Go on".
We don't expect Napoleons or Wellingtons from our PKR, at least they must learn the basic tenets of leadership.