Bung ‘declined’ Cabinet offer, rubbishes marginalisation claims

Bung Moktar and Beaufort MP Datuk Siti Aminah Aching in Kota Kinabalu.

KOTA KINABALU: Amid talk that Sabah MPs were being marginalised in the federal administration, Sabah Umno chief Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin has dismissed such claims and says he turned down an offer to be in the Cabinet.

“Yes, I was offered (a Cabinet post), but I declined because I wanted to focus on my responsibility as state Umno chairman to strengthen the party’s position in facing the upcoming 17th state election,” the Kinabatangan MP and Lamag assemblyman said here yesterday.