Yong Teck Lee
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) fully supports the appointments of Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob as Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Defence and Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein as Senior Minister/Foreign Affairs Minister because the appointments will further strengthen Perikatan Nasional-Led Government to focus on the National Recovery Plan (NRP) in the shortest possible time.
“This is what the people want,” said SAPP President Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee said in a statement today.
Yong, who is also a Deputy Chairman of the ruling Perikatan Nasional (PN) Supreme Council, was commenting on the announcement made by Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, that the Prime Minister had informed the PN leaders of the intention to appoint the two UMNO senior leaders earlier.
The appointments of Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob as the new Deputy Prime Minister and Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein as the new Senior Minister are supported by all leaders of the PN Supreme Council.
Yong, who is also a former Chief Minister, said the Prime Minister has obviously made these decisions with the Covid-19 pandemic NRP in mind and to ensure the Cabinet is suitably manned by able, experienced statesmen with excellent crisis management track records to help steer the nation post pandemic economic regeneration plan.
