500 Quit SAPP, Force Closure Of 11 Branches
TAWAU, April 21 – About 500 members of the Sabah Progressive Party
(SAPP) in Tawau have quit the party and expressed support for the
Barisan Nasional (BN), thus causing the closure of 11 party branches,
former Tawau SAPP vice-president Mohammad Dahuk said today.
He said several leaders were among those who left, including Tawau
SAPP women’s wing head Masja Hussin and youth wing chief Illiyassufyan
Mohammad.
Tawau Umno Division chief and Tawau BN chairman and the BN candidate
for the Apas state seat Datuk Tawfiq Abu Bakar Titingan, the BN
candidate for the Tawau parliamentary seat Datuk Mary Yap Kain Ching and
the BN candidate for the Sri Tanjong state seat Fung Len Fui were also
present at the news conference to announce the closure of the SAPP
branches.
The former SAPP members read out a pledge to support the BN and cut
and snapped their SAPP membership cards in a symbolic gesture of
quitting the party.
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