PARTI Warisan Sabah has filed eight election petitions against the results of the 14th general election in seats won by the Barisan Nasional, saying that there was enough evidence of foul play.

These include the last-minute arrival of postal votes and Form 14 irregularities, the party’s lawyers said.

The party today filed petitions at the Sabah High Court challenging the election results of the Kimanis, Sipitang, Keningau and Libaran federal seats, and the Sungai Sibuga, Kundasang, Sook and Kiulu state seats.

Warisan secretary-general Loretto Padua Jr said about 25 lawyers will be handling the eight petitions with a minimum of three lawyers for each seat.

“We won’t be filing the petitions if there are not enough evidence to back there had been foul play during the May 9 polls.

“We are confident on this and we leave it to the lawyers to handle them,” Padua told reporters at the court after the filings at 11am today.

Today is the last day for parties to file election petitions after the polls.

In Semporna yesterday, Sabah Chief Minister and Warisan president Shafie Apdal said that Warisan had already captured 35 seats by 11.45pm on May 9.

“But there are many instances of the election officials refused to sign the Form 14 and there were just too many postal votes suddenly arriving, some from areas that doesn’t even have a police station.

“We found various evidences in Sungai Sibuga, Sipitang and Kundasang,” Shafie told reporters during his Hari Raya open house yesterday.

Meanwhile, Sabah PKR also filed its election petition for Pensiangan, with the party’s candidate Raymond Ahuar alleged that “money politics” was used to induced voters to vote to the winning party.

Ahuar lost to PBRS deputy president Arthur Joseph Kurup in a five cornered fight, with a 2,314-vote majority in the poll.

“Some of the Pensiangan folks now regretted having taken the money given to them. They were being offered between RM50 to RM1,000 each before, during and after the election.

“We have enough evidence to proof that the voters were bribed and up to 30 police reports have been lodged by them, with some offering to return the money given to them,” said Ahuar, adding that he has a team of five lawyers handling the petition. – June 18, 2018.