Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said the reconstruction of the railroad, which had ceased operations for decades, would close the development gap between the interior and the urban areas.
KOTA KINABALU: Parti Warisan Sabah chief Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal (pic) is keeping his party's door open for former Umno Sabah members, including the 14 elected representatives who left the party Wednesday (Dec 12).
Shafie said that the nine Umno assemblymen, five MPs, two Senators and 21 division chiefs, who were part of a mass exodus from the party, have not yet indicated their future political positions.
“We will wait and see,” he told reporters after Sukau assemblyman Datuk Saddi Abdul Rahman, who left Umno in August this year, officially joined Warisan on today (Dec 12).
Saddi had remained an independent "friendly" to the Warisan state government after he had left Umno.
Shafie himself was a former Umno vice president who left the party to form Warisan before the May 9 general election.
He added that Sabah Umno leaders' decision to leave the party and declare their support for both the state and federal governments was the right decision.
“I am sure that they have come to a decision to leave Umno after studying their long-term political future,” he said.
“I am confident they have made the right decision as today Umno is a disunited party,” he added.
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