PAKATAN Harapan president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has given her assurance that a Sabah leader will be on the coalition presidential council, admitting that the list of names drawn up for the  Registrar of Societies (RoS) was submitted in haste. 

Wan Azizah said a Sabahan on the council is important to the spirit of Malaysia. 

“It goes without saying that we have already agreed to form Malaysia with the inclusion of Sabah and Sarawak.  

“As the Chief Justice of Sabah and Sarawak Richard Malanjum has said, Sabah did not join Malaysia – Sabah made Malaysia. 

“For this, we have this in mind (A Sabahan in the council),” she told reporters at the Sabah PKR Hari Raya open house today. 

Malanjum was reported to have said that in response to arguments that the Malaysia Agreement 1963, the Inter-Governmental Report and other documents related to the formation of Malaysia was “academic”.

Athough dismissed as a “non-issue by Sabah DAP, Barisan Nasional members in the state have latched on to the lack of a Sabah representative in the opposition’s presidential council line-up, which has Dr Mahathir Mohamad as chairman, Wan Azizah as president, and Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and Amanah president Mohamad Sabu as deputy presidents.
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Dr Mahathir, who presented the line up on July 15,  said the PH leadership line-up and logo would be submitted to RoS for approval. – July 22, 2017.