Parti Warisan Sabah president Mohd Shafie Apdal has insisted that the six Sabah lawmakers who had defected to his party were not forced to do so, nor induced.

"There is no inducement, (no) force. They were not forced.

"I didn't place them for two to three days in a house. There is no force in this," Shafie said at a press conference in his house in Kota Kinabalu today...