KOTA KINABALU, May 17 -- Barisan Nasional (BN) and Pakatan Harapan (PH) leaders have been lambasted for using the Unity Government Secretariat letterhead to announce their Sabah state election cooperation.

Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) deputy secretary-general Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali said it is inappropriate since it only involves the understanding of two coalitions.

He said the action by the PH and United Malays National Organisation (Umno) secretary generals, Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail and Datuk Wira Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, had caused unconstructive political polemics in Sabah.

This situation had forced Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor to respond, and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to explain Hajiji's statement d...