Kota Kinabalu: Election Reform Committee (ERC) Chairman Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman (pic), said a lot of “pelik” (weird) things have been happening in Sabah politics since 1985, and that it inspired him to write a book on it. He recalled the first weird thing as Secretary of the Election Commission (EC) from 1979-1995.
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“I was here running the election then (1985). I went to bring the election result to brief the Head of State (TYT) at the Istana Negeri about the winner, the loser and so on.
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