Musa chairs first state cabinet meeting
KOTA KINABALU: Tan Sri Musa Aman who refuses to step down as chief minister despite his group losing its majority in the state assembly chaired his first Sabah State Cabinet meeting at the Sabah State Administrative Centre yesterday.
Among those in attendance were the three Deputy Chief Ministers, Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, Datuk Seri Panglima Hajiji Mohd Noor and Datuk Seri Panglima Masidi Manjun.
Matters discussed were on strengthening the administration by restructuring and streamlining several ministries so as to execute its functions and objective more effectively, a press release from the Chief Minister’s Department said.
After the meeting, he left the building just before 3pm without speaking to the media who had been waiting there since noon.
Prior to the meeting, Musa had an audience with Head of State Tun Juhar Mahiruddin at the Istana Negeri at 10am. The meeting lasted about half an hour behind closed doors.
Bernama reported that State Secretary Tan Sri Sukarti Wakiman and State Attorney General Zaleha Rose Pandin were also present at the meeting with Juhar. Both declined to speak to the media after the meeting.
Meanwhile Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan told the media that the meeting was attended by all the cabinet ministers and only administrative matters were discussed.
Musa did not say anything about his meeting with the Head of State, said Jeffrey to a question by the media.
When asked to verify that there will be the swearing in of a new Chief Minister later last night, Jeffrey said replied, “No idea, (but) how can swearing in two chief ministers? “
He also said that any question about Musa’s resignation as Chief Minister must be directed to the latter himself and stressed that the matter was not discussed in the cabinet meeting.