Joseph Pairin Kitingan
…after being announced the winner, almost all PBS assemblymen defected to Barisan Nasional. Pairin was not allowed to be sworn in as Chief Minister. Tun Sakaran Dandai of UMNO was then sworn to be the eighth Chief Minister of Sabah. On 6 June 2015, Pairin asserted a "clear connection of the incident to the 2015 Sabah…