{"id":17811,"date":"2023-01-08T20:47:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T12:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=17811"},"modified":"2023-01-08T20:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T12:47:03","slug":"we-cannot-accept-backdoor-government-says-ewon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2023\/01\/08\/we-cannot-accept-backdoor-government-says-ewon\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We cannot accept backdoor government&#8221; says Ewon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (UPKO) incoming president Datuk Ewon Benedick reiterated his stand of not supporting any form of \u2018Sheraton Moves\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said all the Pakatan Harapan (PH) representatives in Sabah have collectively disagreed with any efforts to topple down the current Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have offered my opinion to him (Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim) yesterday. We had a presidential council meeting of PH. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have made our stand very clear, that we don&#8217;t want any efforts to topple down the current Chief Minister. We cannot accept any backdoor government,\u201d he said when met by reporters after meeting with Hajiji at CM official residence at Seri Gaya today.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by assemblymen from Sabah PH, as well as GRS and Sabah BN.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ewon who is also Entrepreneur Development and Cooperative Minister, Anwar respected the stand made by Datuk Christina Liew (Api-Api), Datuk Frankie Poon Ming Fung (Tanjung Papat), Phoong Jin Zhe (Luyang), Jannie Lasimbang (Kapayan), Tan Lee Fatt (Likas), Peto Galim (Inanam), and himself as the assemblyman for Kadamaian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about principal. I don&#8217;t think he (Anwar) will buy the idea to topple any current chief minister, even prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the Sabah version of Sheraton move. We cannot accept that (backdoor government) \u2026 This is a very important principal to us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (UPKO) incoming president Datuk Ewon Benedick reiterated his stand of not supporting any form of \u2018Sheraton Moves\u2019. He said all the Pakatan Harapan (PH) representatives in Sabah have collectively disagreed with any efforts to topple down the current Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor. \u201cI have offered my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17812,"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-17811","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\/17811","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=17811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17813,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17811\/revisions\/17813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}