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KOTA KINABALU: Former Chief Minister Tan Sri Musa Aman has rejected claims that the unprecedented rise of Covid-19 in Sabah was triggered by his failed July 29 attempt to regain state government through defections.
In an open letter to the people of Malaysia, Musa said he wanted to make it clear that he was not the “original sin”, as alleged by his opponents in the Warisan Plus coalition, who blame him for being the trigger for September 26. state surveys.
He said that Warisan Plus, led by Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal, should admit the increase in cases by calling state elections and not blame him (Musa) and the government of Gabungan Rakyat Sabah.
He said Warisan Plus was unhappy after losing the state elections and the leaders of its constituent party began a deluge of finger-pointing, including Lim Kit Siang of the DAP, “conveniently blaming my attempt to overthrow Shafie.”
Musa said the DAP was continually trying to mislead people with Seputeh’s deputy Teresa Kok, insisting that he (Musa) triggered the Sabah elections.
“(She claims) that I tried to overthrow the Warisan Plus government by forming a ‘back door government’ and further accused my action as the ‘original sin’ that led to the increase in cases,” he said.
Musa reminded Kok and other Pakatan Harapan leaders that the Warisan Plus coalition fully supported Shafie in advising Yang di-Pertua Negeri to dissolve the Sabah Assembly on July 30 to pave the way for early elections.
“It was Shafie who, in a widely circulated video, said he would rather die than return me to power, which is ironic because he was the one who stole the government from us in the first place, right after GE14,” Musa said. .
Musa said Warisan Plus and Pakatan should also remember that they formed the state government out the back door when they toppled him as chief minister after the 2018 general election.
“Shafie pushed for the elections because he realized that he had lost the confidence of the majority of his assembly members.
“Rather than being a gentleman about it, he chose to be reckless in advising the governor to dissolve the assembly and go to the polls despite knowing the repercussions it would have in the midst of a pandemic,” Musa said.
He added that Shafie should have resigned responsibly rather than recklessly plunging Sabah into an election during the Covid-19 pandemic.
He also said that in other states, mentris besar and top ministers acted responsibly and resigned when their respective governments fell after a change of leadership in Putrajaya earlier this year.
Musa had claimed that he had 33 of the 65 assemblymen supporting his return as prime minister, but Shafie moved to seek the dissolution of the state assembly with the governor’s consent on July 30.
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