KUALA TERENGGANU – Terengganu Human Development, Dakwah and Information Committee chairman Mohd Nor Hamzah said he will be giving his statement in the election petition trial for the Marang parliamentary constituency at Kuala Terengganu High Court on Sunday.
In a Facebook post, he said his absence yesterday was due to being involved in several state government programmes apart from proposing to Barisan Nasional’s (BN) lawyer on Wednesday for the hearing to be heard in the evening.
“Wednesday evening, my personal assistant informed me that the BN lawyer proposed that I attend at 10am on Thursday, but I proposed the evening as I have many programme commitments in the morning,” he said here yesterday.
The Terengganu election court yesterday issued a warrant of arrest for Nor Hamzah for failing to be present to testify in the Marang election petition trial.
The order was issued by Kuala Terengganu High Court judge Datuk Hassan Abdul Ghani after the petitioner’s lawyer Muhammad Amin Othman sought a warrant of arrest against the Bukit Payong assemblyman.
The hearing for the Marang parliamentary constituency election petition will resume on Sunday.
The Terengganu election court on February 12 rejected the initial objection presented by PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang to cancel the 15th general election result petition for the Marang parliamentary constituency filed by the Barisan Nasional candidate. – Bernama, March 17, 2023
