True to the colourful form of Sabah politics, even after the Gaya parliamentary by-election has come and gone, the war of words has not ended not even within the victorious Barisan Nasional camp.

Call it envy or sour grapes, the state's leading predominantly Kadazandusun-based Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS), which returned recently to the BN fold and as expected delivered most of the indigenous group's votes to the front in the by-election, has come under harsh words from another, much smaller, Kadazandusun-based party, Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS).