PARTI Warisan Sabah will challenge the results of eight state and federal seats in the May 9 elections, including those of former chief minister Musa Aman, his brother Anifah, and Jeffrey Kitingan.

The party will file the petition at 10am tomorrow, said its lawyer, Douglas Lind.

The eight are the Kimanis, Sipitang, Libaran and Keningau federal seats and the Sook, Kundasang, Sungai Sibuga and Kiulu state seats.

Anifah (BN-Kimanis) and Kitingan (Sabah Star-Keningau) both won by a slim majority, while Musa’s (BN- Sungai Sibuga) majority was slashed by nearly 80% compared with his 2013 victory.

Musa won by 2,184 votes against Asmara Abdul Rahman (Warisan). In 2013, he won by 11,569 votes.

Anifah retained the Kimanis seat by 156 votes. His rival, former state minister Karim Bujang (Warisan), polled 11,786 votes.

Joachim Gunsalam (PBS) won Kundasang by 255 votes, Joniston Bangkuai (PBS) retained Kiulu by 1,443 votes and Elron Angin (BN-PBRS) won Sook by 4,485 votes.

Musa’s son, Hafez Musa, won the Sipitang seat by 852 votes against Hayaty Mustapha (Warisan), while Zakaria Edris (BN) won Libaran by 678 votes against Irwanshah Mustapha.

At Keningau, Jake Nointin (Warisan) lost to Kitingan by a mere 45 votes, polling 13,241 votes to the latter’s 13,286.  

Sabah Chief Minister Shafie Apdal said the party won’t file the petition if it doesn’t have between 70%-80% chance of winning the case in court.

“I have given the mandate to the lawyers to proceed with cases where they found clear evidence of election offences or instances of intimidation, fraud, vote buying or too many postal votes.

“The process of law must proceed. We must adhere to the law,” said Shafie at the Sabah Hari Raya open house at the Yayasan Sabah building today.

Sabah PKR, too, will challenge the results for the Pensiangan parliamentary seat and file a petition tomorrow.

Its candidate, Raymond Ahuar, lost to PBRS deputy president Arthur Kurup by 2,314 votes. – June 17, 2018.