Dr Patau's STAR to spread wing to Sabah

Kuching (Dec 14, 2011): Maverick Sabah politician Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan is to announce the setting up of the Sabah chapter of the Sarawak State Reform Party (STAR) in Kota Kinabalu on Friday, his close friend said tonight.

He said STAR president Dr Patau Rubis have agreed to extend his party's influence to neighbouring state.

"Dr Jeffrey and Dr Patau have talked of spreading STAR to Sabah for sometime, and they have agreed," Dr Jeffrey's close friend said.

He said Dr Jeffrey had to resort to STAR after failing to re-register United Sabah National Organisation (USNO) with the Registrar of Societies (ROS).

USNO was dissolved in 1991 after UMNO spread its wing to Sabah, after PBS pulled out of the Barisan Nasional in the middle of the campaign for the 1990 general election.

Dr Jeffrey had also submitted an application to register his United Borneo Front (UBF) as a political party with the ROS, but has not succeeded.

According to sources, a number of Dr Jeffrey's supporters are expected to join to join the Sabah chapter of STAR.