GBS to work closely with GPS — Ongkili

KOTA KINABALU: Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) president Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili said the newly minted Sabah-based political alliance, Gabungan Bersatu Sabah (GBS) will work closely with Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) in their common struggle in fighting for the state’s rights and the 1963 Malaysia Agreement (MA63).

He said GBS had agreed to join hands with GPS that was officially registered by the Registrar of Society (RoS) recently, to enable the two political entities to fight for the State’s rights and MA63 on the same platform and in one voice.

According to Maximus, who is the joint-president of the GBS, presently, five GBS MPs including himself representing Kota Marudu, Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan (Keningau), Arthur Kurup (Pensiangan), Datuk Anifah Aman (Kimanis) and Datuk Zakaria Edris (Libaran) had aligned themselves with the independent side and sit together with the GPS MPs in Parliament.

“We plan to strengthen this. We are guided by them (GPS) in a way because they have 19 MPs and we have five (at the moment),” he said when met at the recent istallation ceremony of the KadazanDusunCultural Association (KDCA) newly elected supreme council members for 20182021 term in Penampang.

“The rest of GBS MPs are still sitting at the BN-Umno side,” he said.

Maximus expressed the confidence that the alliance would grow bigger once the GBS had been formalised by the RoS.

GBS is expected to submit its application the RoS in January 2019 and that the proposed constitution has also been circulated to the coalition-member parties.