SABAH POLLS | Tambunan, a highland district known for its Mat Salleh Memorial and the homegrown tobacco sold openly at the morning market, is a place where politics sits quietly beneath layers of tradition, memory, and kinship.

It has been the seat of power for the Kitingan family for 49 years since Kadazandusun paramount leader Joseph Pairin Kitingan first won the Sabah state seat in 1976. It was later taken over by his younger brother Jeffrey (above) in 2018.