Sabah’s gentleman politician passes away

Influential leader: Condolences pour in for Sakaran’s family from all over Malaysia.

KOTA KINABALU: Tun Sakaran Dandai will be remembered by many as a “good and humble man” in Sabah’s rough and tumble politics.

The late Sakaran, whose political career spanned from the formation of Malaysia in 1963 to becoming Umno’s first chief minister in Sabah in 1994 and later governor, was noted as a gentleman politician.