Datuk Mutang Tagal
KOTA KINABALU: The Sarawak Government has nominated a candidate for the next Senate President role, however, the specific nominee’s name, however, remains undisclosed.
A veteran Sabah politician was also offered the post but reportedly declined nomination.
According to the New Sarawak Tribune, Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan the nomination process is complete.
“And we now await the official swearing-in ceremony. We have sent only one candidate for the position,” he told reporters at the Land Compensation Cheque Handover Ceremony for the ART – Sg Batu Depot project development in Kuching Friday.
Speculation had previously pointed towards Datuk Mutang Tagal, a former Bukit Mas MP, as the likely successor to Tun Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar as Senate President.
Wan Junaidi vacated the Senate Presidency following his appointment as the Sarawak’s eighth Head of State.
Mutang, 69, who served as the MP for Bukit Mas in two consecutive terms from 1982 to 1990, is of Lun Bawang descent. A bother to the first Ba Kalalan state assemblyman the late Datuk Dr Judson Sakai Tagal.
Born on October 5, 1954, in Lawas, he is an alumnus of Universiti Malaya with a Bachelor of Law and holds a Master of Business Administration from Curtin University. – Talantang
