KUALA LUMPUR: The fate of five Sarawak Progresive Democratic Party (SPDP) leaders will be known this Friday when
the party’s supreme council discusses the findings of its disciplinary committee.
The five were referred to the disciplinary committee over their continued absence from the party’s supreme council meeting.
SPDP president Tan Sri William Mawan Ikom, when contacted, confirmed that the committee had completed its report which it would table and discuss at the supreme council meeting on Nov 25.
“It is up to the supreme council member to decide on the findings,” he said in a short SMS to Bernama yesterday.
The five are senior vice-president and Tasik Biru assemblyman Datuk Peter Nansian, vice-president and Marudi assemblyman Sylvester Entri Muran, vice-president and Mas Gading MP Datuk Dr Tiki Lafe, information chief and Batu Danau assemblyman Paulus Palu Gumbang and another supreme council member and Bekenu assemblywoman Rosey Yunus.
The five leaders had sided with Entri after Mawan suddenly dropped Entri as SPDP secretary-general early last year.
As a result, Nansian, Tiki, Rosey and Paulus were labelled the ‘Rebel SPDP 5’.
Recently, they were labelled Rentap, a new acronym, based on the first letters of their names.
When contacted, most of them refused to comment on the impending supreme council decision.
However, one of them, Nansian, was recently reported as saying he had refused to reply to the show-cause letters which were issued to them by the party disciplinary committee.
Asked whether the party supreme council would eventually decide to sack them, the party’s organising secretary, Paul Igai, said: “Anything is possible”. — Bernama