Told You So – Congrats Anwar & Anthony For Leading PKR-DAP To Extinction

Told You So – Congrats Anwar & Anthony For Leading PKR-DAP To Extinction


December 1st, 2025 by financetwitter



He had been huffing and puffing profusely trying to convince Sabahans to vote for Pakatan Harapan, an alliance made up of PKR (People’s Justice Party), DAP (Democratic Action Party) and Amanah (National Trust Party). But the voters in the Borneo state saw only injustice, inaction and untrustworthiness from the Malaya-based ruling government led by forked-tongue Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.


The Sabah state election results on Saturday (November 29) show that not only angry and disillusioned Chinese Sabahan had rejected Chinese-dominated party DAP, but there was also not a single “Palestinian vote” for PKR, let alone Amanah. It was a huge humiliation for Anwar, whose tireless – yet boring – campaign captured only 1 seat for his party PKR, whilst DAP was literally wiped out with zero seats.



In total, Pakatan Harapan won only 1 seat despite fielding 22 candidates. That is a “national embarrassment” considering that its chairman Anwar is the 10th Prime Minister, who also holds the purse strings in his capacity as the finance minister. Even then, its sole victory came from an assemblyman who had been parachuted in from Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) at the eleventh hour.

PKR’s win in Melalap through Jamawi Jaafar was nothing to shout about. He was one of three express frogs “bought” by Anwar in the last minute to boost PKR’s chances. Jamawi was once with UMNO, before hopped to Parti Warisan. However, when Warisan fell in 2020, Warisan returned to UMNO and when UMNO was not on the same page with GRS in 2023, Jamawi jumped ship to GRS and is now in PKR.



Another parachute candidate orchestrated by Anwar and his daughter Nurul Izzah was Yamani Hafez Musa, the son of Musa Aman, the Sabah governor and a former corrupt chief minister. Despite high expectations, Yamani ended up losing the contest in Sindumin to Warisan’s Yusri Pungut. PKR’s gamble on another parachute candidate from GRS, George Hiew, also lost to Warisan’s Alex Wong.





Therefore, PKR has actually been wiped out in Sabah, losing even its traditional two seats of Api-Api and Inanam, which it won in the 2013 General Election and retained in the last state polls. Still, the top leadership of PKR continued to show arrogance. Lawmaker Fuziah proudly told all and sundry that PKR was on its way to form a state government, even before GRS chairman Hajiji Noor finished compiling his numbers.


The stunning defeat reflects how PKR had lost touch with the realities on the ground. In fact, barely 24 hours before the polling, the clueless PKR Sabah bragged about winning up to eight seats out of the 22 constituencies it was contesting. It was already bad when PKR was given the chance to contest 12 seats, up from eight in the 2020 polls, but managed to win only 1 seat (thanks to a lucky frog).



It becomes worse when in spite of the “middle finger” shown by the Sabahans, half-baked PKR deputy president and election director Nurul Izzah pretends that the party was still in great demand. The daughter of PM Anwar said that PKR’s opportunity to contest 12 seats shows the “seeds of confidence” in the party are beginning to take root in Sabah. Sure, what could possibly go wrong with such mentality.



It’s not that the People’s Justice Party did not know the incoming tsunami. There were prior surveys done by think-tank like Ilham Centre – warning of a wind of change among Chinese voters in seats such as Likas, Inanam, Luyang, Kapayan and Api-Api, all of which were previously held by Pakatan Harapan. But Anwar and his lieutenants stubbornly believed PKR was powerful, invincible and undefeatable.


DAP under the arrogant leadership of Anthony Loke Siew Fook, meanwhile, was both shocked and speechless after failing to retain any of the eight seats it had won in the last state polls – the worst result in DAP’s history. The party top leadership did not expect the annihilation of big guns like DAP chief Phoong Jin Zhe, his deputy Chan Foong Hin, Sandakan MP Vivian Wong and two-term Kapayan assemblyman Jannie Lasimbang.



Having dominated in urban areas for several election cycles, DAP was overconfident even before it entered the election. Since winning its first Sabah state seat in 2008, DAP has slowly built up entrenched positions in the state, mostly in urban areas with a sizeable Chinese voter base. The party reached its peak in 2018, going from four state seats to six – a number which it retained in 2020.



However, those achievements were not due to Anthony (who took over as the new DAP secretary-general in March 2022), but thanks to years of hard work from previous leadership such as Lim Kit Siang and son Lim Guan Eng. In the same breath, PKR and DAP’s results in the 2020 Sabah state election were also attributed to their partnership with Warisan that year. This round, DAP lost all the constituencies it previously held to Warisan.


Many Chinese voters happily shifted their support to Warisan instead of DAP, largely due to the perceived lack of integrity at the federal level and corruption scandals involving political elites in Sabah, which power-crazy Mr Anwar shamelessly defended in order to cling to power. But corruption did not rock only Sabah, but also the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).



When corruption scandal plagued the PMO, which saw PM Anwar arrogantly defending his senior political secretary Shamsul Iskandar, DAP downplayed the crisis and bragged about its so-called “good service” for the people, despite lacking basic amenities like electricity, water, roads and public transport. If Sabahans wanted good service, they would rather go to Hatyai for head-to-toe service.



Worse, after UPKO president Ewon Benedick resigned as Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Minister over disagreement with Anwar-appointed Attorney General’s appeal on Sabah’s 40% revenue rights, followed by the withdrawal of UPKO from Pakatan Harapan, DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke foolishly attacked Ewon in an attempt to impress his boss Anwar.


Loke’s moronic attack was the last straw that broke the camel’s back. DAP, through its relative silence – made worse by Loke’s attack on Ewon – on the issue of Sabah’s 40% entitlement to its federal revenue contributions, continued to behave as though its Chinese vote bloc was assured – a fixed deposit – even as ground sentiment showed they were shifting to Warisan.



Sabah has for years been trying to negotiate a return of its entitlement as stated in the Federal Constitution. The last thing they want is an appeal from Malaya to insult a Sabah High Court’s verdict that Sabah is entitled to 40% of revenue collected in the state. Anwar’s Madani decision to appeal was seen as betrayal, disrespect, and oppression, whilst Loke’s attack was seen as insensitive, ignorance and arrogance.


UPKO’s strategic move to leave Anwar-led Pakatan Harapan paid off when the party tripled its seats to three in the Sabah election on Saturday. The negative reaction to the arrest of Albert Tei, the businessman at the heart of an alleged mining corruption scandal implicating GRS-PH, by enforcement agencies under Anwar’s government, has also painted Pakatan Harapan as a bully and gangster like Barisan Nasional.


Sabahan might not be very clever, but they were smart enough to not trust PKR president, who trumpeted about anti-corruption and good governance, but at the same time defended the corrupt Sabah elites. Likewise, they have enough brain cells to see Sabah DAP as nothing but lapdogs taking orders from their big boss in Malaya. Neither big talker PKR nor DAP was interested in championing the rights of Sabah.



Sabah Chinese chose to vote for Warisan in droves because Shafie Apdal has the balls to speak up against racial discrimination, corruption and injustice – the previous trademark role played by DAP. Hardcore supporters of DAP who now laugh and mock Sabahans as “sohai” for supporting the corrupt Hajiji government again should realize that Anwar and Loke were also the same “sohais” who defended Hajiji, and worse, continues the support the corrupt gang today.


At the same time, the ethnic Chinese in Sabah could see how “ungrateful” young Turks led by Loke had plotted with gang members like Nga Kor Ming, Steven Sim Chee Keong, and Chow Kon Yeow to kick out “old guard” led by Lim Guan Eng. But unlike Lim, who fought to defend the interests of the minority Chinese community, the Loke faction cowardly keeps quiet whenever the ethnic Chinese are bullied.


If spineless DAP under Loke leadership does not even have the balls to defend Chinese in Malaya, how do you expect Sabah Chinese can trust DAP to speak for them in Borneo? DAP has long been compared to eunuch MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association). But DAP is worse than MCA. At least, MCA was subservient to only UMNO. DAP is submissive to both UMNO and PKR.



DAP today has no courage, no leadership, no integrity, and no principle. Yet, its leaders were very LCLY (only Chinese understood this acronym). From the suspicious death of Teoh Beng Hock to the abduction of Raymond Koh by the Royal Malaysia Police, and from Lynas radioactive waste to corruption in the Prime Minister Office, DAP’s new motto is “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”.


For ethnic Chinese to be trampled all over by UMNO gangster Akmal Saleh is one thing. For Prime Minister Anwar to personally threaten to ban alcohol in Chinese schools’ halls rented to generate income for maintenance, upgrades, and student aid is another thing altogether. It was only after DAP adviser Lim Guan Eng fiercely spoke up that the timid Anthony Loke, whose mantra was “don’t spook the Malays”, found his balls to beg Anwar for a U-turn.


And it definitely screams betrayal when DAP, which was once perceived as a fearless and outspoken party against corruption, racism, extremism and injustice during the era of Lim Kit Siang and Karpal Singh, is now reduced to a church mouse – too terrified to even express its displeasure over crooked Najib Razak’s discounted jail sentence and dropping of corruption charges against UMNO crooks as well as Anwar’s cronies.



Instead of fighting against crooks who had stolen billions, DAP excitedly rubbed shoulders with them, even having wet dreams of partnering with UMNO in the next 16th General Election. The fact that Barisan Nasional suffered major setbacks in the Sabah state election – from 59 seats in 2008 to just 14 in 2020, and to 6 now – indicates that UMNO which DAP tries to suck up to is on its way to oblivion.



In general, Sabahans were disappointed because instead of lowering the cost of living, eradicating poverty, and fighting corruption, the Anwar government has instead expanded sales and service tax (SST), introduced more taxes, and protected crooks. To their horror, the premier easily gave away RM200 million to Hamas-Palestinian while the people of Sabah struggle to put food on the table. It’s “Sabah First” bah, not “Gaza First”.


Anwar supporters in Malaya may think he is the greatest invention since sliced bread, but many Sabahans still remember and view Anwar with distrust because when he served as former PM Mahathir Mohamad’s deputy in government from 1993 to 1998, Anwar was involved in covert operations to alter the demographics of the state by issuing citizenships to illegal Muslim refugees from the neighbouring islands of southern Philippines and Indonesia.



Crucially, Anwar’s political rhetoric, hypocrisy, and double-standards have helped to push the narrative that a Sabah government fully composed of local parties could better push Putrajaya for the state’s full and rightful claims under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63). MA63, the legal instrument signed in 1963 as the basis of the formation of the Federation of Malaysia, recognises Sabah and Sarawak not as mere states but as equal partners with West Malaysia.


We began criticizing Anwar in the past two years because he had gone astray after just one year in power, and we wanted to push Pakatan Harapan back on the right track. While we were supporters of Pakatan Harapan, a blind supporter we are not. What’s the point of blindly praising Anwar Ibrahim, and Anthony Loke for that matter, if the consequences are a “total wipe out” as seen in the Sabah state election today?


Plenty pro-Anwar bloggers, propagandists, cyber troopers, YouTubers, TikTokers and news media were both shocked and flabbergasted when news flashed about the total annihilation of DAP and the near extinction of PKR in Sabah on Saturday because they had blindly supported and worshipped them, even when the writing was on the wall that Anwar has been deviating from PKR’s original struggle. Sure, go ahead and cook up more excuses that Sabah political landscape is different from Malaya.



The biggest red flag that Anwar has started behaving like ex-PM Najib Razak is his increasing dictatorship due to fear of losing power by limiting freedom of speech to only those praising and supporting the Madani government. Was it a coincidence that Pakatan Harapan lost horribly in Sabah after blocking alternative news sources like FinanceTwitter?


Former Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi’s ruling Barisan Nasional coalition lost for the first time its traditional two-thirds majority in the 2008 general election – after his son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin attacked the blogging community, referring to bloggers as “monkeys”. Ultimately, Barisan Nasional lost its power after 60 years under Najib leadership – also after censoring alternative news media, including FinanceTwitter.


Like it or not, the Sabah election result is a “major setback” for not only Anwar, but also his daughter Nurul’s appointment as election director. Nurul Izzah, who was recently appointed deputy president of PKR through a coup hatched by his daddy to topple Rafizi Ramli in an effort to create a dynasty, has damaged her own political credibility, competency and strategic calculations. This is not a wake-up call. This is a warning. She’s not ready.



Perhaps PKR would not have suffered such a humiliating defeat had Rafizi – armed with his big data analysis – remained PKR deputy president and chief strategist. Perhaps DAP would not see an egg on Loke’s face had the young Turks humbly shared power with the old guards, or at least put on a thinking cap before insulting UPKO. DAP needs to go back to DAP 1.0, not MCA 2.0. For now, Guan Eng and Rafizi probably are watching with popcorn

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Ref to a paragraph above, namely "DAP has long been compared to eunuch MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association). But DAP is worse than MCA. At least, MCA was subservient to only UMNO. DAP is submissive to both UMNO and PKR", I believe it's time to relieve MCA from political opprobrium. MCA has suffered long enough and is probably reborn by now, having learn its lesson (and villain status) for aeons. Let DAP enjoy the label of a "cringe-worthy" political party by itself, a lapdog of its Malay partner, a 'yes-man' to ketuanan Melayu.

It is of course true that today's DAP is lightyears worse than yesterday's MCA, but as stated let us no longer mentioned MCA in despicable terms, comparative as it has been. Give the party (MCA) a 2nd chance and in place let us now enjoy insulting DAP, wakakaka (well, until it repents).