Is Musa on his way out?

Rumours are rife that Najib Tun Razak will soon give
the nod for Musa Aman to be replaced by an interim CM.
KOTA KINABALU: Increasingly embattled Umno may be forced to do a rescue reshuffle of the party hierarchy in Sabah in the hope of retaining its political hold on the state.

Reliable party insiders here said the reshuffle would involve no less than the top posts in Sabah Umno and the state government – both currently held by Musa Aman.

Musa’s leadership is being openly challenged by his own colleagues.
The most recent and stinging attack was from Umno’s influential Beaufort MP Lajim Ukin who disclosed that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak reneged on a pledge to change Musa, who has become subject of various allegations of abuses of power including one involving hundreds of millions of ringgits in a Swiss bank account.

Lajim, together with Tuaran MP Wilfred Bumburing, the former deputy president of Upko – a BN component – have since left the national coalition and thrown their support behind Anwar Ibrahim’s Pakatan Rakyat.

According to the insiders, Najib is expected to give the go-ahead to the idea of replacing Musa as Sabah Umno chief.

Shafie Apdal, an Umno vice-president who is also a senior federal minister, will eventually replace Musa.

In the interim, these insiders said, Musa would be asked to take a vacation and let a senior Sabah Umno minister take over as chief minister ahead of the 13th general election.

Two names had been floated for the job – Hajiji Mohd Noor of Tuaran or Masidi Manjun of Ranau.

The manoeuvring is to eventually pave the way for Shafie, the Semporna MP, to take over the leadership of the state after the general election.

Lajim-Musa tussle

Shafie has already won many friends and confidantes in the Sabah BN circles and they include ex-BN stalwarts Lajim and Bumburing, as well as PBS deputy president Maximus Ongkili and LDP president VK Liew, both are serving in the federal government.

Umno’s grapevine has it that Lajim could well be doing Shafie a favour by steadily going against the establishment. He is expected to provide more information on alleged corruption in government as the election looms.

The tussle between Lajim and Musa has been going on for some time.

The Beaufort MP went so far as to brief Najib about the swelling disapproval of Musa in the state which was further fueled by the exposé of money-laundering investigations being carried out in Malaysia and abroad.

Musa is being described as ‘Mr Vacuum’ by those doing business in Sabah to illustrate the lack of business friendly conditions in the state.

Many have overlooked the fact that Musa was already a successful multi-millionaire businessman well before he was appointed chief minister in 2003.

When he was appointed, he reportedly declared his wealth to be RM300 million.

But that is exactly where other groups are going for his throat. They argue there is no reason for him to allegedly “take all” as he is already very rich.

However other spheres of influence control Sabah politics in one way or the other.

On one hand, Shafie is said to be close to Najib while on the other Musa reportedly has the ear of the Prime Minister’s influential wife, Rosmah Mansor.

Najib-Shafie-Yong team

Shafie is favourably positioned as the great uniter able to win back Lajim and Bumburing, should the duo get elected under Pakatan ticket in the coming election.

According to the Umno insiders, Shafie is also a friend of Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) leader, Yong Teck Lee, and this relationship would come in handy for Najib should there be a hung parliament later.

Using the well-funded Rural Development Ministry entrusted him by Najib, Shafie has more or less buttressed his influence within the BN circles in Sabah and in Peninsular, political analysts said.

Shafie is also believed to be the man behind “the new-kid-on-the-block”, KDM Malaysia, helmed by Umno businessman Peter Anthony, who incidentally was a virtually unknown but is now under Najib’s eye.

Recently, Anthony has been in the news for his philanthropy and controversial statements. He recently said KDM Malaysia could secure places and scholarships for local students in universities and colleges. It is now clear where his confidence stem from.

However, it is also an open secret that PBS president Joseph Pairin Kitingan is all for Musa and not Shafie.

This can be seen from Pairin heaping praises on Musa whenever the opportunity provides and in the process subjecting himself to the ridicule of his own Kadazandusun community, arguably the most disenfranchised and marginalised group under Musa’s tenure.

One reason why the opposition State Reform Party (Star) is so popular especially among the Kadazandusuns now is due to the supposedly strategic marginalisation of the community by the BN government and the failure of Pairin and PBS to compel Najib and Musa to correct this.

Observers here note that wily politicians like Bumburing, a Dusun, and Lajim, a Dusunic Bisaya are seeing a shift in grassroots support away from the ruling coalition and their move to the opposition was to capitalise on this.

Another interesting twist to the chief minister changeover, according to Umno insiders is that by putting someone “clean-looking” on an interim basis, Najib would have more room to manoeuvre state politics in his favour ahead of Umno party elections.

“The acting CM is just acting … it would be to pave the way for a new KL-annointed guy from Sabah Umno to continue leading Sabah after the general election,” they said.

104 comments:

  1. Apabila Musa mengangkat sumpah di dalam tahun 2003 sebagai Ketua Menteri Sabah, ekonomi Sabah telah terasa keadaan yang buruk. Pertumbuhan dalam pelbagai sektor adalah menurun, bahagian-bahagian utama negeri telah menghadapi kekurangan sumber, infrastruktur adalah dalam kekacauan dan pelaburan telah perlahan. Selain itu, mood rakyat adalah gundah gulana. Cabaran terbesar adalah untuk membangkitkan semangat dan ekonomi, memulihkan kehidupan dan membina infrastruktur. CM Datuk Musa Aman, pakar strategis dan pengalaman kebangsaan dan antarabangsa. Beliau mengorientasikan semula dan susun semula struktur pentadbiran kerajaan, memulakan latihan besar-besaran bagi pembinaan infrastruktur, rekreasi persekitaran perniagaan dan meremaja semangat tradisional keusahawanan Sabah, meletakkan Sabah kembali ke landasan kemajuan dan kemakmuran.

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    1. Sabah sudah jauh berbeza jika dibandingkan dengan tahun 2003. teruskan berusaha.

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    2. Rakyat harus bersyukur dengan pembangunan yang dicapai oleh Sabah sekarang walaupun masih banyak yang perlu diperbaiki. yang penting usaha pembangunan akan sentiasa dilakukan dari masa ke semasa.

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    3. Under the leadership of Musa, Sabah become more develop.

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    4. Sudah banyak perubahan dan pembangunan yang telah dilaksanakan di Sabah semenjak pentadbiran Musa. Semua pun tahu Musa adalah peniaga yang berjaya sebelum menjadi KM. Kebijaksanaan beliau diaplikasi dalam menaikkan lagi ekonomi Sabah.

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    5. Nah, rakyat patut bersyukur dengan apa yang telah Musa lakukan. Tak dinafikan masih banyak yang perlu diperbaiki tapi at least Sabah memang membangun.

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    6. because of that a lot of people is jealous of him too

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    7. byk pembangunan di lakukan di Sabah, ekonomi Sabah makin meningkat dan makin ramai pelabur dtg ke Sabah kerana Musa.

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    8. Sabah has significantly developed under his leadership. Please don't discredit him in this way.

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  2. Datuk Musa Aman has managed to improve the state financial stability and has even gotten the auditor general's praises for his achievement.

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    1. Sabah has registered a GDP growth of over 7% over past five years which is one of the highest growth rate among all the states in Malaysia. The efforts of Musa’s government have resulted into metamorphosis of a revenue deficit state into a revenue surplus state with reserves of 2.32 billion ringgit . Last year alone, the state’s export value stood at RM49.4 billion with trade surplus of RM16.6 billion.

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    2. Even in the forest sector Musa has done a wonderful job as he has been pursuing for good forest and environmental governance in the interest of future generations to come. Recently, The Sabah Forestry Department had decided to re-gazette 183,000 hectares of Class 2 Commercial Forests into Class 1 Protection Forests to expand the expanse of totally protected forests in the state.

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    3. I can't imagine how Sabah would turn out to be if Musa didn't become the cm. Keep up the good job Musa!

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    4. yeah keep up the good job in improving Sabah

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  3. Sehingga sekarang kita dapat lihat kejayaan datuk musa sebagai KM Sabah. Semoga beliau akan meneruskan usaha untuk kepentingan penduduk SAbah sendiri.

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    1. ya..usaha harus diteruskan agar Sabah jadi lebih maju lagi.

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    2. Sokongan rakyat terhadap Musa Aman akan meningkatkan lagi keupayaan negeri ini untuk maju.

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    3. The people will continue to support Musa.

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    4. Musa Aman pasti akan terus berjuang membangunkan Sabah dan memastika penduduknya hidup selesa.

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    5. Rakyat pasti akan terus sokong Musa. jangan risau, semua masalah yang timbul pasti dapat ditanggani dengan baik.

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    6. kita harus sokong kepimpinan Musa Aman dalam membangunkan lagi Sabah.

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  4. I don't think Shafie Apdal is the right man to replace Datuk Musa Aman. He is not in the PM's good books following his KKLW and Zahida scandal. Shafie is no longer Datuk Najib's blue eye boy.

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    1. Shafie is too busy fooling around with Zahida. Better find someone better to be the cm.

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    2. keadaan Semporna di bawah jagaan Shafie pun begitu mundur, apa lagi jika dia yang menjaga Sabah pasti lagi teruk.

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  5. Jika kita lihat sendiri apa jasa Datuk Musa lebih baik rasanya. Kerjaya Datuk Musa sebelum aktif dalam politik. Sebelum ini beliau pernah dilantik sebagai Konsul Kehormat di Bangladesh. Kepercayaan kerajaan terhadap Datuk Musa sehinggakan menjadi konsul di Negara luar.

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  6. Banyak lagi apa yang kita perlu tahu akan Datuk Musa Aman ini. Beliau yang sebelum ini bekerja sebagai pegawai bank pernah dilantik sebagai Pengarah Eksekutif City Finance Berhad {Julai 1983 - April 1995), Pengerusi dan Ketua Eksekutif Innoprise Corporation (ICSB).

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    1. I never knew about this till now. Thanks for the information.

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  7. Selain itu, beliau juga dilantik sebagai Pengarah Sinora, Innoprise International Incorporated, dan Pengerusi Sabah Softwoods Berhad. Memang Datuk Musa banyak pengalaman dalam pengurusan besar-besaran. Jadi kebolehan beliau ini sehingga sekarang dapat kita lihat. Tahniah kepada beliau.

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    1. Kebolehannya menyebabkan ramai pihak yang cuba menjatuhkannya. Kesian juga dengan Musa.

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  8. Pada masa yang sama juga beliau telah giat dalam politik, USNO adalah pilihan parti beliau yang pertama pada tahun 1980. Bayangkan saja kesibukkan Datuk Musa untuk membagikan kerja sebagai pengerusi dan politik. Apa pun memang Datuk musa yang terhebat,

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    1. Datuk Musa the bomb! I hope the next cm will be something like Musa minus the corruption though.

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  9. The Bisaya Community has stated their support to the BN government under Datuk Najib and Musa Aman's leaderhip, PBBS deputy president said that they will not support Lajim's decision to align with the opposition.

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    1. Leaders that jump ship often are those cannot be trusted. The Bisaya community made the right choice in supporting the Bn governmnet under datuk Najib and Musa's leadership.

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  10. Semakin hari semakin menampakkan kebolehan Datuk Musa. Tidak lama selepas itu beliau diamanahkan lagi menjadi Bendahari UMNO Sabah tidak lama kemudian beliau berpeluang lagi memegang jawatan yang lebih tinggi iaitu sebagai Bendahari Barisan Nasional Sabah.

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    1. Musa is a very competent person.We are lucky to have him as our cm.

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  11. Pada 20 Mac 1999, beliau dilantik sebagai Menteri di Jabatan Ketua Menteri Sabah. Kemudian pada 27 Mac 2001, beliau dilantik sebagai Menteri Kewangan Sabah. Pada 27 Mac 2003, beliau mengangkat sumpah sebagai Ketua Menteri Sabah yang ke-13.

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  12. Lihatlah bagaimana perjalan Datuk Musa sehingga mengecapi jawatan KM Sabah. Dengan usaha dan kegigihan itu yang membawa beliau seperti apa yang ada sekarang ini. Banyak perkara yang dilalui sehingga mencapai kejayaan sekarang ini.

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  13. Tapi yang pasti ramai pihak yang kurang senang dengan beliau sehinggakan pelbagai isu mula dibangkitkan yang paling kerap dipermainkan adalah isu rasuah.

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    1. pencapaian Musa sebagai CM membuatkan ramai yang berusaha untuk jatuhkan beliau.

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    2. Selagi tak jatuh selagi itulah akan banyak isu yang ditimbulkan.

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  14. Tapi rasanya tidak ada kebenaran lagi yang dapat dipastikan dengan kes ini.

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  15. Kerana kita tahu kes ini masih tidak ada bukti kukuh. Tambahan lagi isu ini kerap diulang-ulang berkali-kali oleh pihak yang tidak bertanggungjawab. Nasihat kepada pembaca supaya menyiasat terlebih dahulu sebelum mempercayainya.

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    1. Sangatlah setuju. Sebagai pembaca yang bertauliah kita jangan mudah percaya dengan sesuatu hal sebelum pun menyiasat hal itu sedalam mungkin.

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  16. rakyat negeri ini sentiasa menghargai nikmat kehidupan yang aman, makmur dan selamat di bawah kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) yang sentiasa prihatin membela nasib rakyat. Jadi pastikan kita terus mengekalkannya.

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  17. Kejayaan Datuk Musa dan kerajaan Negeri BN ini menjadikan keamanan keutamaan. Tanpa keamanan sudah pasti rakyat sentiasa dalam ketakutan dan tidak berani keluar dari rumah apa lagi menghadiri majlis-majlis keraian

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  18. kerajaan BN sentiasa peka dan prihatin membantu rakyat keseluruhannya tanpa memikirkan ideologi politik, kaum mahupun fahaman agama termasuk masyarakat di luar bandar yang sememangnya banyak memerlukan pembangunan infrastruktur dan pembangunan asas.

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  19. Penduduk juga perlu terus mengutamakan perpaduan kaum, persefahaman serta tidak berpecah belah sebaliknya sentiasa bermuafakat menyelesaikan apapun permasalahan demi keharmonian sesama penduduk di samping mengeratkan hubungan dengan kaum-kaum yang lain berlandaskan konsep 1Malaysia.

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  20. Rakyat diingatkan tidak terpesona dengan janji-janji bulan dan bintang pembangkang yang hanya bermusim terutamanya apabila dekat pilihanraya dengan menjaja pelbagai isu semata-mata mau memesongkan pemikiran rakyat dan membenci kerajaan demi memenuhi agenda politik sempit mereka.

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  21. Datuk Musa sudah berusaha keras dalam menaik taraf kehidupan rakyat Sabah. Sejak beliau menjadi CM telah banyak yang beliau lakukan.

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    1. Although there is still many unresolved issues, CM still manage to develop Sabah into what it is now.

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    2. Thanks to Musa for his effort in building up Sabah.

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  22. Segala janji yang diberikan oleh kerajaan pasti akan ditunaikan dengan sebaik mungkin.

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  23. Usaha yang telah dilaksanakan di Sabah sepatutnya tidak diabaikan. Kerajaan berusaha sedaya upaya untuk memberi yang terbaik pada rakyat.

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    1. the government has worked hard in developing sabah. Sabah wouldn't had turn out like this if its not because of Musa.

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  24. pencapaian ekonomi Sabah memang membanggakan sejak kebelakangan ini. ini bukti kepimpinan Musa menjalankan tugas dengan baik.

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    1. Hanya yang cemburu saja akan cakap Musa takda sumbangan dalam pembangunan Sabah.

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  25. pembangunan yang dinikmati dan sedang rancak dilaksanakan adalah hasil kesungguhan semua.

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  26. banyak kejayaan yang dirasai sekarang. semoga pembangunan dan ekonomi Sabah akan terus maju ke hadapan.

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  27. Yang benci sangat dengan Musa tu tak nampak kah Sabah lebih membangun dan semakin berkembang?

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  28. Bahang PRU kian terasa jadi tidak hairan juga banyak hal negatif dikaitkan dengan CM.

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  29. Sabah pasti akan berkembang pesat di bawah pimpinan Musa. Justeru kita patut menyokong beliau.

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  30. Bukan senang nak jatuhkan Musa. Saya percaya usaha untuk menjatuhkannya sudah berlaku sejak dulu lagi namun lihatlah Musa masih kekal sebagai CM.

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    1. The people surrounding Musa are always envy of his position. THey will do anything to bring him down.

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  31. Ini terbukti ramai yang menyakini Musa dan percaya beliau mampu jaga kebajikan rakyat.

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    1. compare Musa to other past CM, Musa has shown more

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    2. Ya previous CM memang ada sumbangan tapi Sabah takkan sebaik ini jika bukan Musa jadi CM.

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  32. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman has been commended for his excellence in leading Umno and the state government, said Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun.

    Masidi who was among the two names mentioned as potential successor, described it as obviously a ‘manufactured’ rumour.

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  33. Kepimpinan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak sebagai seorang pe- mimpin yang amat prihatin dan berjiwa rakyat tidak boleh dipertikaikan.

    Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri Musa Aman berkata, ini kerana sejak Perdana Menteri menerajui kerajaan Malaysia, banyak program dan projek diperkenalkan yang kesemuanya menjurus kepada kesejahteraan rakyat.

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  34. CM Datuk Seri Musa Aman wants the state and federal civil servants to work as a strong team towards ensuring the smooth and successful implementation of development projects as well as polies.

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  35. Sabah has progressed under the dynamic leadership under CM Datuk Seri Musa Aman. He is proactive, visionary and a leader who cares for the needs of the people.

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  36. Penampang UMNO Chief John Ambrose says CM is the right person to continue to lead Sabah.

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  37. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman has been commended for his excellence in leading Umno and the state government, said Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun

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  38. He stated this when replying to a reporter’s question yesterday on a recent report by an online portal that claimed that Musa was on his way out.

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  39. The portal also alleged that another senior Sabah Umno minister will be taking over as chief minister.

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  40. Masidi who was among the two names mentioned as potential successor, described it as obviously a ‘manufactured’ rumour.

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  41. “Musa is doing an excellent job leading the party and the state government and the Prime Minister (Datuk Seri Najib Tun RAzak) himself has complimented Musa’s leadership. Umno and BN Sabah are fully behind Musa to continue leading the State,” he said when launching at the official opening ceremony of the Rafflesia Spa Essentials at Warisan Square.

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  42. Dengan segala usaha yang Musa lakukan, kalau masih ada yang tak puas hati, saya pun tak tahu mahu cakap apa.

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  43. Sabah sudah banyak membangun di bawah pimpinan Musa dan negeri ini pasti akan terus berkembang pesat.

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  44. Tegang juga keadaan politik sekarang macam 'peperangan' saja.

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  45. Bagaimanapun, dalam situasi sebegini rakyat harus lebih fokus dan bijak membuat penilaian.

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  46. Semakin banyak isu yang cuba menjatuhkan nama baik Musa, saya yakin semakin kukuh jugalahg Musa berdiri.

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  47. Musa tidak akan mengalah hanya kerana hal ini so keep up the good work.

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  48. Jangan putus asa Musa. Masih banyak yang menyokong anda termasuklah saya.

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  49. saya yakin tidak akan ada perubahan terhadap pucuk pimpinan Sabah.. sumber maklumat ini pun yang kononnya "sumber dari dalam" sudah seringkali digunakan oleh pembangkang untuk menyebarkan khabar angin..

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  50. setahu saya, kepimpinan datuk musa aman masih disokong kuat oleh pemimpin2 Sabah dan juga Najib.. so tidak timbul soal beliau akan digugurkan..

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  51. sumber yang kononnya dari dalam ini sudah tidak boleh digunakan hari ini.. sudah banyak kali pembangkang membohongi rakyat dengan menggunakan istilah "suber dar dalam"..

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  52. The people has to decide for themselves.

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  53. Is this from a true source about Musa replacement?

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  54. The government is certain about what is right.

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  55. Musa has truly served the state and its people.

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  56. He has made a lot of contribution towards a brighter future for the people.

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  57. Musa is an epitome of a good leader.

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  58. Is this some kind of politic game?

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  59. He is solidly supported by the people.

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  60. I believe he has done well for the people.

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  61. Who know what is going to happen after the completion of the project.

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  62. Who is worthy to take his position afterwards?

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  63. Let the people of Sabah decide but wisely done.

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  64. Musa has showed greater effort than before.

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  65. Who knows if it is a rumor afterall?

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    1. We will find out sooner or later.

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  66. The government will have to decide.

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  67. pembangunan secara perlahan lahan adalah lebih baik dari tiada

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    1. pembangunan takkan berlaku dalam sehari, ia berlaku perlahan2 dan haruslah terancang.

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