10-vote majority: BN-Umno candidate claims Warisan won Kukusan through bribery

Bribery is reasonably the cause of how a Warisan candidate won the Kukusan seat with a mere 10-vote majority in the 2020 Sabah state election, claimed a BN-Umno candidate.

Chaya Sulaiman raised this allegation in his election petition seeking to challenge Rina Jainal’s victory in the Sabah seat during the state polls on Sept 26 last year.

The applicant claimed that this was borne out by several incidents in the campaigning period prior to the election.

In one incident on Sept 25, 2020, Chaya claimed Rina’s agent purportedly gave RM100 to two constituents...