Gabungan Rakyat Sabah’s offer for Umno to contest only eight seats in the upcoming 17th Sabah election was deemed “deeply hurtful,” eventually derailing their negotiations to form an alliance, said Sabah Umno treasurer Salleh Said Keruak.

In a Facebook post today, Salleh explained that negotiations with GRS became difficult when BN was only offered eight seats, despite Umno being an incumbent in 14 seats from its victories in the previous state election...