GPS wolf in sheep’s clothing – Dr Yii

KUCHING: The decision by Sarawak Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties to leave the once formidable coalition to form Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) does not change the fact that the new coalition is merely a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Bandar Kuching MP Dr Kelvin Yii said leaders in the four component parties (PBB, PRS, SUPP and PDP) were still the same people who have been abusing their powers over the years.

“The people voted against BN in the last general election because of corrupt practices by those in the coalition.

“It is not just the name (BN) the people rejected but also those who are in the coalition because they have abused their powers by being involved in corrupt practices as well as being accomplices in the alleged 1MDB scandal and the billions of ringgit that were stolen from the people,” he told a press conference at DAP Sarawak headquarters here yesterday.

Dr Yii said those BN leaders should have left BN before the GE14 and not after the collapse of BN if they were truly individuals of principles.

“Would they have done the same if BN and former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had won the general election? Or, is this just a gimmick...a change of clothes for their own self interest and political survival,” he asked.

Describing the formation of GPS as putting ‘old wine in a new bottle’, Dr Yii said the new coalition was just a ‘change of facade’ with a ‘core that is still rotten’.

“I call upon Sarawakians to see beyond this rhetoric for it is not the BN that stole the people’s money and their lands but it’s those people within the party who did all these things.”