Tun Datu Mustapha

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Tun Datu Mustapha, also known as Tun Datu Haji Mustapha bin Datu Harun, was the first governor of the Malaysian state of Sabah. He was also the third Chief Minister of the state from 1967 to 1975, and was the president for the political party United Sabah National Organization (USNO). He died in 1996 and was buried in his memorial at Tambunan. He was known to be responsible for allowing illegal immigrants from southern Philippines to enter Sabah en masse in order to secure phantom votes, as well as to create a Muslim majority state.^[1] He also succeeded in converting a significant number of non-Muslim indigenous people in Sabah into Muslim, mainly by sponsoring mass conversion drives, by way of offering certain monetary or pecuniary benefits in return.^[2] The government recently decided to award and remember him for his services rendered to Sabah by renaming the then Sabah Foundation Building after him: Menara Tun Mustapha (Tun Mustapha Tower).

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