DAP Sabah will have two major objectives in the 14th General Election expected next year.

The first is to defend the electoral victories by the DAP in Sabah in Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan and Tawau in the 13th General Election, winning not only the two parliamentary and four state assembly seats in 2013, but also constituencies which we missed winning in these areas.

But the second objective is more formidable and challenging – to make a breakthrough in the interior areas, particularly the parliamentary and state assembly seats in Pensiangan, Keningau and Tenom, as we want to ensure more DAP Kadazan-Dusun-Murut elected representatives take their places in Parliament and the Sabah State Assembly.

In fact, I am looking forward not only to more DAP KDM elected representatives, but also to the election of Kadazan-Dusun-Murut State Assemblywomen as well.

This is the reason for my tour of Tenom, Keningau and Pensiangan in the last two days together with National DAPSY leader and Perak DAP State Assemblyman for Canning, Wong Kah Woh. Also with us in the two-day visit to Tenom, Keningau and Pensiangan are the Sabah DAP Chairman and MP for Sandakan, Steven Wong; Sabah DAP Adviser and MP for Kota Kinabalu, Jimmy Wong and the Sabah DAP Deputy Chairman and Sabah State Assemblyman for Kepayang Dr. Edwin Bosi.

The focus of DAP in Sabah in the 14th General Election is to successfully elect DAP KDM parliamentarians and State Assembly representatives for the parliamentary and state assembly contests in Sabah.

I have in fact just spoken to Kah Woh, and he has told me that DAPSY has taken on a very great challenge and responsibility to adopt Pensiangan, Keningau and Tenom parliamentary and state assembly constituencies and to ensure that the Sabah DAP can successful make breakthroughs in these constituencies.

DAPSY will draw up a blueprint to help Sabah DAP score victories in the parliamentary and state assembly constituencies in Pensiangan, Keningau and Tenom.

The 14GE is a crucial and critical one for Sabah and Malaysia.

We must end the kleptocratic rule of Barisan Nasional in Putrajaya and Sabah.

We must save Malaysia to save Sabah!

[Speech (2) at the Christmas fellowship meeting organised by Pensiangan DAP Branch at Kampong Kilo Lanas in Sook, Sabah on Thursday, 29th December 2016 at 12 noon]