{"id":14576,"date":"2022-08-12T00:16:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T16:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=14576"},"modified":"2022-08-15T19:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:43:43","slug":"bn-vows-to-win-back-beaufort-parliamentary-seat-in-ge15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2022\/08\/12\/bn-vows-to-win-back-beaufort-parliamentary-seat-in-ge15\/","title":{"rendered":"BN needs to win back Beaufort parliamentary seat in GE15 &#8211; Lokman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BEAUFORT: Barisan Nasional (BN) needs to reclaim and win back the Beaufort Parliamentary seat in the upcoming 15th general election, said former Beaufort BN committe member, Lokman Sunggim.<\/p>\n<p>In making the call, he said BN deserved not only to contest but also defend the seat.<\/p>\n<p>He asserted that the Beaufort parliamentary constituency has always been a BN traditional seat and as such, BN needs to reclaim and win back the seat.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous GE, the Beaufort Parliamentary constituemcy was won by Datuk Seri Panglima Azizah Mohd Dun who at that time contested on a BN ticket but later she switched parties to Bersatu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am confident that the people in Beaufort will continue to support BN,&#8221; he said in a statement here on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Lokman, who is also the Umno head of the Kikansa branch, Kuala Penyu said this when commenting on Serikandi Bersatu Chief Azizah Mohd Dun&#8217;s statement on Wednesday, asserting that Bersatu would defend six parliamentary constituencies in Sabah, including Beaufort in GE15.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the seats, namely Kudat, Beluran, Libaran, Sipitang and Beaufort were won by BN candidates in the last general election.<\/p>\n<p>Lokman hoped the Sabah Umno top leadership would field a winnable candidate to recapture the seat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are confident that the Sabah Umno under the leadership of Datuk Seri Panglima Bung Moktar Radin will deliver the goods for BN in Beaufort,&#8221; he stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14576"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14634,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576\/revisions\/14634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}