State stand on Tuanku Muhriz’s status as ruler, Negeri Sembilan PAS reps told

Former law minister Zaid Ibrahim has called on PAS’s Negeri Sembilan assemblymen to state where they stand on the purported removal of Tuanku Muhriz Tuanku Munawir as Yang Dipertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan.

Zaid, who joined PAS in June, said the assemblymen should speak up on the status of Tuanku Muhriz, as removing a sitting ruler was unprecedented.

“The state constitution includes provisions for how to do it. PAS must make sure the law has been followed; if not, Tuanku Mukriz is still the Yang Dipertuan Besar,” he said in a post on X.

“It does not matter whether the proclamation is by the exco or the menteri besar.”

The Negeri Sembilan executive council yesterday issued a statement affirming that Tuanku Muhriz’s removal in April was legitimate and that Tuanku Nadzaruddin Tuanku Ja’afar was therefore the new ruler of Negeri Sembilan.

It said the council, chaired by menteri besar Ismail Lasim, convened on Tuesday and collectively decided that the April 19 proclamation for the removal of Tuanku Muhriz had been signed and sealed by the duly constituted and incumbent undangs.

The council said that the proclamation was also signed by Ismail on Aug 3, rendering it complete in accordance with Article 10(2) of the Negeri Sembilan constitution. Ismail has disputed the validity of the document.

Rembau Undang Hassan Ab Hamid said that the exco members could not supersede the Negeri Sembilan constitution, as the Dewan Keadilan and Undang had declared the proclamation invalid, while lawyer Rosli Dahlan also questioned the validity of the statement.

Several Barisan Nasional exco members, as well as one representative from Perikatan Nasional, have since republished the statement affirming the purported removal.

The only exco member who has not republished it is PAS’s Fairuz Isa, the Serting assemblyman.

The other three PAS assemblymen are Rafie Ab Malek (Ampangan), Kamarol Ridzuan Zain (Paroi) and Abdul Fatah Zakaria (Bagan Pinang).