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Ahli Parlimen Kota Belud, Datuk Rahman Dahlan yang dikenali sebagai politkus paling lantang menjawab isu yang dibangkitkan pembangkang di Sabah, hari ini bertindak membidas kenyataan Presiden STAR Dr Jeffry Kitingan yang sebelum ini mempertikaikan kredibiliti Musa Aman. Dr Jeffry dalam kenyataannya menganggap pencapaian tertinggi MusaAman di Sabah aialah peningkatan PATI dan kemiskinan rakyat.
Rahman Dahlan yang juga merupakan setiausaha Barisan Nasional Sabah mendakwa , Datuk Musa Aman telah berjaya mewujudkan 80,000 peluang pekerjaan di Sabah selain daripada mengumumkan bajet negeri tertinggi dalam sejarah melebihi 4 billion ringgit.Manakala simpanan tunai kerajaan lebih 3 billion.
Sejak kebelakang ini Datuk Rahman dicop oleh kebanyakan pemerhati politik sebagai pemimpin "pelarian' kerana tidak mempunyai kawasan tetap untuk ditandingi menjelang PRU 13. Jika benar bahawa Parlimen Kota belud menyaksikan bukan lagi Datuk Rahman yang dicalonkan, dan kemungkinan beliau tidak akan dikembalikan di Tuaran berdasarkan perkembangan politik terkini.
Walau bagaimanapun, Rahman Dahlan diramal akan tetap dicalonkan berikutan jawatannya sebagai setiausaha BN Sabah .
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Barisan Nasional (BN) secretary Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan regretted the statement by STAR Sabah chairman Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan with regard to the achievements of the state government.
The facts are that Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman’s government has created 80,000 jobs, presented the highest ever state budget of RM4 billion, accumulated state’s cash reserves of more than RM3 billion, presided over unprecedented economic prosperity and was highly acclaimed as prudent manager of the state finances by Auditor General.
The Chief Minister has also received excellent ratings by international rating agencies and Musa’s conservation effort of the state’s natural resources and environment is world renowned, the Kota Belud Member of Parliament said.
“All these while the economy is humming with bigger GDP which churns out higher per capita income of RM17,000,” he said in response to Dr Jeffry’s claims that Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Pairin Kitingan must have forgotten the numbers and facts which the latter mentioned in his speech during the launch of the Chief Minister’s book recently.
According to Abdul Rahman, Dr Jeffrey, being an opposition leader, had mischievously tried to find one thousand excuses to discredit the good work of the Chief Minister and his government.
“But a true measure of people’s acceptance of a politician is when the politician faces the true test, winning the voters’ confidence in elections and the indisputable fact is that the rakyat have given the Chief Minister huge thumbs up by giving him massive landslide majority, not just once but twice, in 2004 and 2008 elections.
“If that is not resounding endorsement of the Chief Minister’s leadership, I don’t know what else does. Of all people, Dr Jeffrey should understand the importance of people’s support to legitimize oneself as a politician,” he said.
“With so many election defeats, what would that say about one’s credibility and legitimacy?
“In life, there is a time for everything and clearly Dr Jeffrey belongs in the past. The people of Sabah are interested in the present and in the future and this Chief Minister has successfully delivered the present and strategically mapped out the future.
