Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Anwar's Contradictions

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Dr Jeffrey (far left), Anwar (third left) and PKR leaders during the press conference.

Anwar Ibrahim says PKR wovs in Sabah are over and Jeffrey Kitingan is happy and has accepted to stay in PKR.Read the story here.

Read the contradiction below.
Sabah Times

PENAMPANG: Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan remains unhappy with the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) central leadership’s way of selecting party leaders in Sabah.

“I’m just unhappy with the way the appointment was made, that’s all,” he said of Ahmad Thamrin Jaini’s appointment as the state liaison chairman.

He insisted that both Sabah and Sarawak PKR should be given the autonomy to pick their own leaders.

“For me, one of the things I want is that PKR Sabah and Sarawak should be given the autonomy, so we can be a local national party,” he told reporters after the closing of the Sabah PKR Convention 2009 yesterday.

Contrary to his sentiment, party advisor, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday that internal problems bogging the Sabah PKR have been resolved and members have expressed the state party line-up.

“I am glad to say at least now they support the party line up in the state. At the same time, we want to make sure the national leadership which includes Dr Jeffrey, Christina Liew and Ansari Abdullah to be given a chance to perform in Sabah and Sarawak,” he told reporters after closing the Sabah PKR Convention 2009 here yesterday.

Anwar said however that he was sticking to the decision to appoint a second-liner of leadership to spearhead the party and hoped that the senior leaders would support and provide guidance to them like how it is being done in some states in the peninsula.

“Since it is spelt out very clearly in the PKR policy statement, I think we should adhere to that,” he said.

Dr Jeffrey, when asked for comments, said he had no problem with the second-liner rationale and without elaborating said, “but you have to ask the others.”

“For me it’s okay. I do what I can to bring up the Borneo issue of Sabah and Sarawak. I am happy to have seen the PKR policy already. But you have to ask the others, it is not just me,” he said.

Anwar had earlier said that the party leadership had received a lot of feedbacks from members and had explained the decision-making process to them.

He clarified that although Ahmad Thamrin’s appointment had caused controversy, it was a mandate given to him just as what the central leadership had done for party divisions in Sarawak and the peninsula.

The State PKR had been bogged down by internal problems when Dr Jeffrey’s announced his resignation as the vice president in October following the appointment of Ahmad Thamrin Jaini as the state liaison chairman by the party’s central leadership. Soon after, Liew relinquished her post as supreme council member.

The party however did not accept their resignations.

“As far as I’m concerned, he (Dr Jeffrey) is (still) the vice-president and I didn’t see his resignation letter,” Anwar said.

Meanwhile, on reports that he would join Party Cinta Malaysia, Dr Jeffrey said: “As far as I’m concerned there is none.’

He said the PKR leadership had also given him the assurance that all his ideas had been accepted.

“That is important, because that is what I am about, I want some real changes and I am banking on their sincerity,” he said.

Here's another contradiction on PAS Hadi Awang's statement that PAS was in no hurry to register Pakatan Rakyat that got Anwar putting a new spin to it.

5 comments:

SM said...

HL,

Your contradiction in Sabah is based on the Sabah Times (aka another MSM source!)? Need I say more
However, as for the PAS President's statement, yes, I agree...Tuan Guru Nik Aziz should get rid of the PAS President & Deputy President as all these jokers want to do is join UMNO (by all means, then they should leave PAS & join UMNO!).

eddy said...

Bro HL, I think not Not Anwar's contradiction, it is more like Anwar trying very hard to sweep the Sabah PKR problem under his already dirty carpet. Anwar has never been a problem solver all his adult life, he knows how to play politics and create a mess for others to clean up after him though, that's his forte. I predict PKR in Sabah will suffer a fate similiar to sudden death if Jeffry does not have his way.

By the way, I think there is no contradiction to what Hj Hadi says, he categorically said that PAS is not ready to join a formally registered Pakatan Rakyat entity as the common fundamentals between PAS, DAP and PKR have not been ironed up. I think Anwar is just trying to put a spin to Hj Hadi's statement, Anwar is after all Malaysia's Master of Spin.

Bro SM, Hj Hadi, PAS President and Nashruddin, Deputy President are both democratically elected by PAS delegates as opposed to Nik Aziz who is PAS Spiritual Leader chosen among I believe a small group of learned PAS members. As such, Nik Aziz do not have any executive power to push out the current PAS President and Deputy President. The two have to be voted out democratically by PAS members.

One should not underestimate Hj Hadi's political prowess Bro, he is a deeply learned man who knows his onions and has PAS's interest at heart and is not ruled by emotions or sentiments. I predict if Hj Hadi decides to go to BN it will not be joining UMNO but PAS will be joining the BN as separate entity to UMNO. I believe PAS can survive and prosper on their own without BN or DAP/PKR but can a Pakatan survive without PAS? I think not.

eddy said...

Bro HL, I think not Not Anwar's contradiction, it is more like Anwar trying very hard to sweep the Sabah PKR problem under his already dirty carpet. Anwar has never been a problem solver all his adult life, he knows how to play politics and create a mess for others to clean up after him though, that's his forte. I predict PKR in Sabah will suffer a fate similiar to sudden death if Jeffry does not have his way.

By the way, I think there is no contradiction to what Hj Hadi says, he categorically said that PAS is not ready to join a formally registered Pakatan Rakyat entity as the common fundamentals between PAS, DAP and PKR have not been ironed up. I think Anwar is just trying to put a spin to Hj Hadi's statement, Anwar is after all Malaysia's Master of Spin.

Bro SM, Hj Hadi, PAS President and Nashruddin, Deputy President are both democratically elected by PAS delegates as opposed to Nik Aziz who is PAS Spiritual Leader chosen among I believe a small group of learned PAS members. As such, Nik Aziz do not have any executive power to push out the current PAS President and Deputy President. The two have to be voted out democratically by PAS members.

One should not underestimate Hj Hadi's political prowess Bro, he is a deeply learned man who knows his onions and has PAS's interest at heart and is not ruled by emotions or sentiments. I predict if Hj Hadi decides to go to BN it will not be joining UMNO but PAS will be joining the BN as separate entity to UMNO. I believe PAS can survive and prosper on their own without BN or DAP/PKR but can a Pakatan survive without PAS? I think not.

Anonymous said...

Anwar Ibrahim is a liar - www.apanama2020.blogspot.com

SM said...

Bro Eddy,

I believe the reason why PAS did so well in the last GE was because of their "colaboration" with the DAP & PKR. Yes, PAS will be able to survive without the PR & in the same vein the DAP will be able to survive without the PR. I think the question would really be can the PKR survive without the PR?!
Yes, I do understand that the PAS President & Deputy President are voted in by the members. However, I guess what I'm trying to say is Tuan Guru (by means of his not too small influence within PAS) should get Hadi & his Deputy to commit one way or the other. To me Hadi seems to be a hyprocrite. On the one hand he wants to talk to UMNO (nothing wrong there) & on the other hand he wants to "placate" most of the PAS members by going with the PR (you can't have both). But he does not want to come out with the truth.