Kelantan palace revokes Ibrahim Ali’s datukship

By Adib Zalkapli

October 13, 2010

Datuk Ibrahim Ali

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 — The Sultan of Kelantan today stripped Perkasa chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali of his datukship with immediate effect.

The Pasir Mas MP was awarded the Order of the Life of the Crown of Kelantan in 2003.

Ibrahim also holds datukships from Melaka and Selangor which were awarded to him in 1994 and 1999 respectively.

The palace decision came just days after the former deputy minister visited the former ruler Tuanku Ismail Petra last week.

The Kelantan Palace comptroller Datuk Abdul Halim Hamad told The Malaysian Insider that Sultan Muhammad V also revoked the former state secretary Datuk Wan Hashim Wan Daud’s title.

Wan Hashim had claimed to be the private secretary to Muhammad’s predecessor and father Sultan Ismail Petra during the recent palace crisis which eventually led to the proclamation of a new Sultan.

During the crisis Wan Hashim had acted against Muhammad who was then the regent, purportedly on behalf of Ismail who has been ill since May last year.

He was briefly arrested by the police last March after he announced the cancellation of the Sultan’s birthday celebration which proceeded smoothly in the absence of Ismail.

Muhammad was named the Sultan by the state’s council of succession last month after acting as the ruler for more than a year.