KOTA KINABALU: Another Sabah leader is calling for the resignation of Datuk Shahrizat Abdul Jalil saying that the Women Development, Family and Community Development Minister was saddled with the National Feedlot Corporation issue.
Kalabakan MP Datuk Ghapur Salleh said Wanita Umno chief should relinquish her posts to save the party and Barisan Nasional ahead of the general election.
“This is one of the serious matters faced by the government under the leadership of Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. She must think of the party,” said Ghapur, the second state leader after Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin to ask for Shahrizat's resignation.
Ghapur, the Kalabakan Umno chief, said Barisan could face a decline in support at the polls if the issue continued to be drag on.
On Wanita Umno's support for Shahrizat at the party's recent general assembly, he said “this is not about the support, but rather about the fate of the entire party.”
Ghapur said in countries such as the United States or Japan, a tainted leader would immediately quit as a sign of responsibility.
Shahrizat had been plagued for weeks by the controversy surrounding the NFC project awarded to her family.
The Auditor General in its 2010 report released last month had questioned NFCs performance with the company's production at 3,289 head of cattle or 41.1% of the target set.
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