KOTA BARU, Nov 25 – Kelantan Menteri Besar, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, said he “can’t wait to” relinquish his post if Kelantan Pas state assemblymen asked him to do do. “If Pas people tell me to step down, I’ll step down this evening,” he told reporters here today when asked to comment on a report in a weekly paper that several state assemblymen from the party wanted him to step down “in his glory days” and give way to younger leaders in the party to lead the state government.
According to the Mingguan Watan report, the group of assemblymen wanted Nik Aziz, who they felt was old and faced health problems, to prepare a power transition plan urgently as many a time important meetings for a swift state government decision had to be postponed as he was in hospital.
Nik Aziz, 77, who has been menteri besar since 1990, said till now no such call had been made to him directly.
He said if the persons who made such a suggestion were not brave enough tosay it to him directly, they should shut up.
Nik Aziz said he held the menteri besar’s post due to the insistence of Pas members who wanted him to continue to helm Kelantan.
“They don’t let me step down,” he said.
Asked about his successor if he relinquished the post, Nik Aziz said: “I may have a candidate but how can I say who it is.”
He said he left the issue of a successor to the party. – Bernama
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