Nizar Najib

Mohamad Nizar bin Mohamad Najib (born 11 May 1978) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Pahang State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Barisan Nasional (BN) state administration under Menteri Besar Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail since December 2022 and Member of the Pahang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Peramu Jaya since November 2022. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the BN coalition. He is also the son of Najib Razak, the 6th and former Prime Minister. Political career He was UMNO Youth Chief of Jalan Daud Branch, Kampung Baru zone in Titiwangsa. Nizar is the UMNO Youth Chief of Pekan since 2018. He has been coined as a potential Barisan Nasional candidate of the 2020 Chini by-election, before the party decided to nominate Mohd Sharim Md Zain. In the 2022 Malaysian general election, after speculation that Nizar might be contesting his first election in Pekan in place of his father, who has recently sentenced to jail, he instead were selected by his party to contest the state seat of Peramu Jaya in the 2022 Pahang state election. He won the seat, defeating 3 other candidates with a majority of 7,823 votes.