COMMENT | On Aug 5, before the dates of the Sabah state election were announced, I wrote in my column in a Sarawak daily:

“Why should 3.8 million Sabahans be made to suffer by having to go through another electoral process just because of the personal feud of their top two political leaders, and that of 60 good-for-nothing incorrigible parasites who care only for their personal ambition and lust for position and power?

“When politicians quarrel, the people suffer. And that is sick!”

The title of my article was “Whoever wins, Sabahans lose”.

I will not proclaim that I feel vindicated for making those statements, or that I feel good today because I was right all along two months ago.

There is nothing to feel good about for a writer, or anyone else (even when they are proven correct), when Sabahans are dying, including a one-year-old girl, from Covid-19 because of the election cluster.

So, did anyone win in Sabah after the Sept 26 polls? As far as I’m concerned, all of Sabah lost.

I maintain to this day that the just-concluded election was totally unnecessary, merely 28 months after GE14 in May 2018...