Dr Jeffrey Kitingan's Party-hopping Justification Is Lame, Says Tawfiq

KOTA KINABALU, June 27- It is a sad day for politics in Sabah when a politician uses "to look for solutions for Sabah" as an excuse to defend his hopping from one party to the next, said State Assistant Minister of Finance Datuk Tawfiq Abu Bakar Titingan.

He said Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan's justification for party hopping was lame and did not hold water.

He said being a so-called seasoned politician, Jeffrey also needed to get his historical facts right.

"Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman did not jump from Usno to Umno as claimed by Jeffrey," he said in a statement, here Wednesday.

Tawfiq asserted that during a special Usno Assembly in 1991, all Usno branches and divisions made a unanimous decision to join Umno enblock.

- BERNAMA