COMMENT Sabah's electorates are not always kind to defecting party leaders - or infamously known as "katak-ing" in Sabah. In 1994, the then opposition PBS (Parti Bersatu Sabah) leaders left the party either to join BN or to form their own parties.

The mass defections from PBS forced the party to give up power to BN. And the 1995 general election results were telling: some of the defecting leaders lost in the election...