Four GRS MPs to remain direct members, not joining Hajiji in Gagasan Rakyat

(from left) Papar MP Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali, Sipitang MP Datuk Matbali Musah, Batu Sapi MP Khairul Firdaus Akbar Khan (Tourism, Arts and Culture deputy minister) and Ranau MP Datuk Jonathan Yassin.

KOTA KINABALU: Four Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) Members of Parliament will remain with the state coalition as "direct members" and will not join Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor in the takeover of Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah.

GRS Papar MP Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali, who is Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, said that there would be no change in their political affiliation as they would remain GRS direct members.