Five PCS leaders resign
TUARAN: Five Parti Cinta Sabah (PCS) leaders, including two from PCS Kiulu division have resigned from all their respective posts in PCS, one of the localbased opposition parties in Sabah, and relinquished their party membership with immediate effect.
The five are PCS speaker (permanent chairman), information chief and director of media and communications unit Lesaya Lopog, PCS treasurer-general John Hussein, PCS Women Exco Member Anita Kokum, committee member and organizing secretary of PCS Kiulu division Joslin Ludsum and assistant information officer Kiulu division Hillary Gindayuk.
Lesaya was a close aide of PCS president Datuk Wilfred Bumburing, having worked for the latter as press secretary for 18 years.
They handed their letters of resignation to the Secretary General of PCS yesterday.
“We have come to a point where we are disillusioned with the way the party is moving forward resulting in us losing confidence in the party and its leaders.
“Almost, if not all, the Sabahbased political parties on both side of the political divide share common political platform and struggle, which is for the betterment of Sabahans within the context of a Malaysian Federation as guaranteed in the MA63.
“What is needed therefore is a political party whose leaders continue to gain the respect of its grassroots leaders and members,” they said in a joint press statement, yesterday.
According to them, they had been together since the inception of Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS), saying “we were the pioneers of APS and later PCS in Kiulu and assisted in organising PCS programs and activities in other areas in Sabah since 2012”.
“Events and critical decisions made by the party leadership prior to the nomination day have given us enough reason to believe that the core struggle of the party which formed part and parcel of its policy statement and vision are not in tandem with some very important and critical decisions made by the top party leadership.
“We wish the party and its candidates all the best, especially those candidates who had a fair chance of winning their respective seats,” they added.