After Nik Aziz, poser over Kelantan’s next leader

(The Malaysian Insider) – After two decades of Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat’s administration in Kelantan, the state ruling party may be better served if it readies a new leader to replace its ageing mentri besar, a Singapore paper has suggested.

In a news analysis today, the Straits Times’ Salim Osman wrote that doubts have been rising over the 82-year-old PAS leader’s grip on power and ability to continue taking Kelantan, described as “a rural state of farmers, fishermen and small businessmen”, forward and meet the aspirations of its much younger electorate who form two-thirds of the state’s population.

“People outside Kelantan are wondering how PAS can maintain its hold for more than two decades when records show that, in terms of achievement, there is nothing much in the ruling party’s history that can show it provided good governance,” the writer quoted former Election Commission chief Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman as saying in a newspaper commentary in January.

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