KOTA KINABALU: Gerakan has invited Deputy Chief Minister Peter Pang En Yin, who quit the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) yesterday, to join the party.
In a joint statement with its two national vice-presidents, Liew Yun Fah and Raymond Tan Shu Kiah, Gerakan Sabah chief, Gordon Leong, said a unanimous decision was reached by all Sabah divisions to invite and welcome Pang, a former LDP vice-president, to join Gerakan Sabah.
“We reached a unanimous decision to make an open invitation for Pang to join Gerakan Sabah following his resignation as LDP vice-president.
Pang said that he wished to remain a supporter of BN and pledged his continued support for Barisan Nasional Sabah under the leadership of Chief Minister Musa Aman.
It is believed that Gerakan Sabah will soon be able to provide Pang a platform to continue to play an effective role within the Sabah BN government and serve the people of Sabah.
Liew, a former youth and sports minister, is himself a former vice-president of LDP. He was suspended for allegedly acting against the interests of the party in the March 2008 general election.
Party-less for nine months
At the time it was speculated that Liew had “sponsored” an Independent to contest against LDP's Pang Yuk Ming after he was not re-nominated by LDP to defend the Merotai seat.
Liew won the seat in 2004.
Tan is another elected representative who courted controversy after resigning from the Sabah Progressive Party which pulled out of the BN coalition.
After being party-less for almost nine months, Tan threw his lot with Gerakan and gave the peninsula-based BN party its first elected representative in the Sabah government.
Oddly enough, his deputy chief minister's post was taken over by Pang En Yin and he was made minister of industrial development.
With Pang En Yin's entry into Gerakan, the peninsula-based party would have three elected state representatives in government through the back door.
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