KOTA KINABALU, Aug 1 — Kepayan assemblyman Edwin Bosi denied today that he had resigned from the DAP and questioned the motives of those who spread the rumour.
Bosi however acknowledged that there may be some internal party issues that had brought on the rumours.
“If I really wanted to resign, I would do it properly — with a press statement and a press conference. But somebody is putting words in my mouth now. Why would they do it? Ask them why,” he said when speaking to Malay Mail Online today.
Bosi said that he was away during the day and had not looked at his phone to see people calling him about rumours of his resignation, until later in the day when someone forwarded him an article of his purported resignation.
“My friends and I were shocked. I don’t know how this happened but it’s not fair to me. It puts me [in] a bad light. I don’t know why they would say this. You should ask them,” he said.
Earlier today, Malay Mail Online carried a story posing a question over Bosi’s alleged resignation, quoting DAP Sabah state secretary Junz Wong as saying that Bosi had sent his resignation to the party’s top leadership but the party was trying to talk him out of it.
Wong did not elaborate as to why Bosi wanted to quit, and other Sabah DAP leaders acknowledged the rumours but declined to comment.
DAP party leader Lim Kit Siang also denied that Bosi had resigned, but declined to elaborate on Wong’s statement.
“Not true,” he said in a brief WhatsApp message.
Bosi was the former DAP state secretary before he was voted out at the party’s state level elections last November. Three of the state’s main committee — Kota Kinabalu MP Jimmy Wong, Bosi and Sri Tanjong’s Chan Foong Hin were replaced as chairman, secretary and deputy chairman respectively by Stephen Wong, Junz Wong and Joan Goh.
