KOTA KINABALU: PKR vice-president Jeffrey Kitingan, who garnered about 40 nominations to vie for one of the four elected vice-president posts, will decide whether to join the contest for the post today, the last day to do so.
Jeffrey, who is an appointed vice-president, said his concern now is whether the election will be transparent and held free of fraud and dirty tactics that had transpired in the divisional polls recently.
"I thank the about 40 divisions which nominated me, including 20 in Sabah, and the rest in Sarawak and Peninsula, but I will only make my decision known tomorrow (today)," he said in Kota Kinabalu yesterday.
Sabah PKR has been abuzz with rumours that the maverick politician will pull out of the race.
In the upcoming PKR national election, Jeffrey has teamed up with Zaid Ibrahim who has been nominated for both the top posts in PKR.
Zaid, it is learnt, will only make his decision known today which post he is going after.
He had, however, repeatedly hinted he would pull out of the race for deputy president if Nurul Izzah, the daughter of PKR supremo Anwar Ibrahim, decides to contest for the post.
Another Sabahan PKR leader, Ansari Abdulah, who got about 20 nominations for the post of vice- president, had already made known his intention to go for the post.
Ansari is believed to be aligned to another current vice-president, Azmin Ali, who is contesting for the post of deputy president with tacit support from Anwar.
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