KUALA LUMPUR – Pakatan Harapan (PH) has given way to Barisan Nasional (BN) to field their candidate for the Tg Dawai seat in the Kedah election next month.
Umno secretary-general Datuk Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki informed that following this, the party leadership has chosen Merbok Umno chief Datuk Shaiful Hazizy Zainol Abidin as the candidate to contest the state seat.
“With the mandate entrusted by the BN chairman (Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi), I hereby announce Datuk Shaiful Hazizy Zainol Abidin as the candidate for N26 Tg Dawai Kedah state constituency, (representing) BN.
“On behalf of BN, I express my appreciation to PH for their spirit of unity by giving way to BN to contest the Tg Dawai state seat,” he said in a post on his Facebook today.
At a ceremony to announce the full list of BN candidates last Friday, Zahid informed that BN will be contesting 108 state seats in the six state elections including 15 seats in Kedah.
However, the candidate for Tg Dawai was not announced that night.
The Election Commission has fixed polling for the state elections in Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu, Penang, Selangor, and Negri Sembilan on August 12, nominations on July 29, while early voting is on August 8. – Bernama, July 24, 2023
