KENINGAU -- Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has refuted the allegation that the assurance given by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to restore the status of Sabah and Sarawak as equal partners in the federation was merely an empty promise. Dr Wan Azizah, who id also PKR president, said the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition had decided on the matter even before the last general election. “We have been talking about restoring the status of Sabah and Sarawak not as states, but equal partners of Peninsular even before we won the general election. We promised to do so,” she told reporters after attending the Jasamu Dikenang programme at Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina Yuk Yin, Bernama reported. In his speech at the national-level 2018 Malaysia Day celebration in Kota Kinabalu yesterday, Dr Mahathir assured that the PH government of the New Malaysia would restore the equal pa...