No need for Sabah polls during Covid-19, ex-CM's lawyer tells court

There is no need to hold the Sabah state polls during the Covid-19 pandemic, former chief minister Musa Aman's lawyer submitted in the Court of Appeal today.

“The last state election was held only two years ago. Why go for another election during the present Covid-19 period,” argued Firoz Hussein Ahmad Jamaluddin, who appeared for Musa, the incumbent Sungai Sibuga assemblyperson, and 32 elected representatives from the state.

He said the five-year term of the state legislative assembly would come to an end...