Get Audio+
Scan to download the app
search menumusic_note STREAM FLY FM

Entertainment

Quitting PH pays off for Upko, but STAR worse off without GRS

today30 November 2025

Background


Jeffrey Kitingan’s STAR, Priscella Peter’s KDM and Ewon Benedick’s Upko went into the state polls without forging formal alliances, setting up multi-cornered contests in various seats as all three parties eyed the Kadazandusun Murut vote, in particular.
PETALING JAYA:

Upko’s decision to leave Pakatan Harapan before the Sabah state election paid off, as the local party tripled its number of assemblymen from one to three.

Upko president Ewon Benedick comfortably retained his Kadamaian seat with a solid 9,672-vote majority, despite contesting without the backing of PH or Barisan Nasional.

He had won the seat in 2018 when Upko was with BN, and defended it in the 2020 state polls when his party was allied with PH and Warisan.

Upko deputy president Peter Donald Mojuntin also recorded a key victory by snagging the Moyog seat formerly held by Warisan, while former Upko president Wilfred Madius Tangau won in Tamparuli. Both of them won with majorities larger than 2,000 votes.

This…

Click here to read the full article.

Source:

Written by: Lynelle Tham

Previous post