{"id":23317,"date":"2023-09-15T05:36:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T21:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=23317"},"modified":"2023-09-15T05:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T21:36:47","slug":"sg4-makes-tun-mahathir-the-de-facto-leader-of-pn-salleh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2023\/09\/15\/sg4-makes-tun-mahathir-the-de-facto-leader-of-pn-salleh\/","title":{"rendered":"SG4 makes Tun Mahathir the de facto leader of PN-Salleh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: Former Sabah chief minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak has described the recent appointment of Tun Mahathir Mohamad as the advisor of &#8220;State Government 4&#8221; as a move to make the former premier the de facto leader of Perikatan Nasional (PN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, the four states, namely Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan, and Terengganu, are all PAS-controlled states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This explains why Tan Sri Muhyiddin was not invited when PAS leaders met Tun Mahathir earlier this month,&#8221; he said in his latest Facebook posting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Communications and Multimedia Minister stressed that the appointment was a brilliant move by Mahathir &#8220;if his real intention is to be in the political forefront again despite the setback in Langkawi during PRU 15&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I believe Tan Sri Muhyiddin has limited options but to play along with whatever decision is made by the PAS-led Perikatan Nasional on the appointment of Tun Mahathir,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Menteri Besar of Terengganu, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar, was quoted as saying recently that Mahathir Mohamad is set to become an &#8220;unofficial advisor&#8221; to an official grouping of the four Perikatan Nasional-controlled state governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samsuri said the mentris besar of Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah, and Perlis would be discussing an action plan for the group that&#8217;s been called the &#8220;State Government 4&#8221; or &#8220;SG4&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: Former Sabah chief minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak has described the recent appointment of Tun Mahathir Mohamad as the advisor of &#8220;State Government 4&#8221; as a move to make the former premier the de facto leader of Perikatan Nasional (PN). &#8220;Obviously, the four states, namely Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan, and Terengganu, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23319,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23317\/revisions\/23319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}