KOTA BARU: Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat (picture) said he will not bow to pressure and resign as the Kelantan Menteri Besar.
"It doesn’t make sense for me to resign just because 200 naughty boys said I should from under a teak tree at the doors of the state administrative building," he said in a statement yesterday.
He was referring to the demonstration yesterday by the so-called Jemaah Rakyat Prihatin Kelantan (JRPK).
The protestors had also demanded that he withdraw his statement calling on the people of Kelantan to pray for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s downfall if the federal government did not pay oil royalty to the state.
Nik Aziz, who is the PAS spiritual leader, said he would neither withdraw that statement nor apologise to Najib as demanded by the group.
"Why must I take heed of the demand by these not even 200 Umno boys to apologise when the Umno president (Najib) himself as the Number One has not asked me to apologise or retract my statement?" he asked.
Najib had said he would not ask Nik Aziz to apologise but added that he could not understand why such a statement had to be made because the federal government had helped the Kelantan by providing more than RM7 billion under the Ninth Malaysia Plan despite the state being administered by PAS, according to Bernama.
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