Kuching, July 5, 2012: Has Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib forgotten of his promise of asking Chief Minister Taib Mahmud to step down, two and half years after the state election?
The indication is he has forgotten.
PKR treasurer William Leong posed this question when he was visiting Sarawak recently.
Leong recalled Najib as telling the people in Sarawak that he would ask Taib to step down, two to three years after the 2011 state election.
But it does appear that Taib is not going to retire or to quit active politics.
Will the prime minister, then, ask the long-serving chief minister to call it a day?
Political watchers are telling that Taib will not quit politics or step down as chief minister anytime soon.
Taib was rather annoyed when DAP secretary and Kota Sentosa State Assemblyman Chong Chieng Jen asked him whether he has any plan to step down.
Leong, however, opined that Najib most likely will want Taib to hang on, at least after the upcoming general election, which is very crucial to Najib and the Barisan Nasional in retaining power at the federal level.
“Now that the general election is around the corner, we have not seen the promise being fulfilled,” Leong said, adding that Najib has been going around in the country, telling the people that the Barisan Nasional is fulfilling its promises.
“So, now we ask him what about the promise made in the state election: Is he going to tell us that the promise (of telling Taib to retire from active politics) will be fulfilled in the next state election?” Leong, the Selayang Member of Parliament, told reporters here after meeting Sarawak PKR leaders.
“I think what the chief minister has done is well known to the people of Sarawak.
“What is he doing to the people in the interior is well-known to the Dayaks and those in court, fighting for their native customary rights land.
“I hope that the people will be brave enough to make the correct choice in the coming general election,” he said.
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