KUALA LUMPUR — PAS will not be re-appointing Datuk Ahmad Yakob as menteri besar and Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah as deputy if it retains a hold on Kelantan after the state elections.
Party secretary-general, Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan, however, said it will maintain the Terengganu and Kedah leadership if it wins in the two states.
He said the decision was made yesterday after a PAS central committee meeting chaired by its president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang.
“PAS calls upon all voters to fulfil their responsibilities and vote tomorrow to choose leaders who are caring, clean (bersih) and benevolent from PAS and PN, and hopes for the election in six states would run peacefully and smoothly,” he said.
The menteri besar and deputy menteri besar posts will be entrusted to a “religious figure” and a “technocrat figure,” respectively. These appointments will be subject to the people’s mandate and the consent of the Sultan of Kelantan, Takiyuddin said.
Ahmad Yakob had held the Kelantan menteri besar posts for ten years since May 2013, replacing the late Tan Sri Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, while Amar also held the deputy position during the same period.
During a ceramah in July, Ahmad Yakob had suggested that he was ready to let go of the top post. – August 11, 2023.