GOMBAK – Perikatan Nasional’s (PN) candidate for the Sg Tua state seat appears to be unfazed by the uphill task of defeating caretaker Selangor menteri besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari in the upcoming polls.
Ostensibly discrediting Amirudin, who is also the incumbent Sg Tua assemblyman, Muhammad Hanif Jamaluddin suggested that Amirudin is no longer viewed in a good light by his constituents.
“I wouldn’t say I’m a giant killer because my opponent (Amirudin) is not such a giant anymore,” he said.
“Whenever I’ve gone to the ground to speak with the people of Sg Tua, they always tell me that they want to give PN a chance to govern.”
The Selangor PAS Youth secretary said this last night during a ceramah here, which drew a crowd of less than 50 people.
Hanif also pointed out that taking down a state election candidate who is also a caretaker menteri besar is not such a far-fetched idea, as it had happened before in Terengganu.
It is believed that Hanif was referring to the 1999 general elections which saw PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang defeating then caretaker Terengganu menteri besar Tan Sri Wan Mokhtar Wan Ahmad, who was an Umno vice president.
With 25 years in office, Wan Mokhtar was the longest-serving menteri besar in the state prior to his defeat to Abdul Hadi.
PAS’s landslide win during the elections then marked the first time the Islamist party, then under the Barisan Alternatif coalition, formed the Terengganu state administrative assembly. – July 31, 2023