Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin at the gates of the State secretariat on his way to work today morning, after being reinstated as MB by the Kuala Lumpur High Court yesterday. - Picture by Choo Choy May
By Shannon Teoh - The Malaysian Insider
IPOH, May 12 - At 7.34am today, Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin arrived at the State Secretariat building to report for work, almost four months after he was forced to vacate his mentri besar's office here.
In sharp contrast to the war zone scenario outside the same building last Thursday at the chaotic state assembly sitting, everything was calm and orderly this morning despite heavy police presence.
The entrance to the building is now blocked by FRU barriers and one side of the road in front is closed to traffic.
By the time Nizar arrived, most of his executive council were already there.
Along with several staff members, they walked to the entrance where they were stopped by Ipoh crime investigation chief DSP Glenn Sinnapah informed them that only exco members and the MB would be allowed in.
Although Nizar protested shortly that it was a public building, he finally gave up as he had to rush to Kuala Kangsar to attend a formal function at the palace.
After saying a short prayer, he entered the compound along with eight of his exco, Pakatan Rakyat Speaker V. Sivakumar and Ipoh Barat MP M. Kulasegaran.
About 10 minutes later, Nizar left the building with his wife after clocking in as the rightful mentri besar, a ruling made by the Kuala Lumpur High Court yesterday.
The rest of the Pakatan Rakyat group are still inside the state secretariat where a press conference will be held at 11am.
At the palace in Kuala Kangsar, Nizar hand delivered a letter to Perak Regent Raja Nazrin Shah seeking an audience to ask for the dissolution of the state assembly, according to an aide of the mentri besar.
He had also faxed the letter from his home in Ipoh at 3am today, to the palaces in Kuala Kangsar, Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur.
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