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KOTA KINABALU: Warisan fired his Keningau division chief, Jake Nointin, after he ran as an independent candidate for the Liawan inner seat.
The party’s general secretary, Loretto Padua, said that any member found competing under another ballot or as independents will have their membership automatically terminated, as it violates party rule.
“I was told that on the day of the nomination (yesterday), Nointin will compete in Liawan against Warisan’s candidate as an independent,” he said, in a statement here today.
Padua said the law violated Article 7 (3), 3.4 which stipulates that a person’s membership is terminated with immediate effect when he competes in an election against a Warisan candidate without party approval.
“Therefore, Article 7 of Warisan’s constitution clearly states that his membership in the party is immediately terminated. She is no longer a member of Warisan after her nomination was validated. “
Nointin faces Rasinin Koutis from Warisan, as well as candidates from Perikatan Nasional and PBS in a seven-way fight for Liawan’s seat.
Nointin was the Warisan candidate who challenged and lost the Keningau MP seat to STAR President Jeffrey Kitingan in the last general election.
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