According to Malay daily Utusan Malaysia, Datuk Mohd Nizar Najib, 44, is being touted as a candidate for the Pekan parliamentary seat if his father, who has held the seat for more than four decades, is ineligible to run.
Najib, 69, is set to begin his final defence against a corruption conviction and a 12-year jail sentence on the 15th of this month and there are no indications that Najib can stop this final appeal from happening.
Nizar, an accountant, has long been groomed to be his father’s political heir. He is currently the youth chief of the Umno division in Pekan, his father’s constituency. He is Najib’s eldest son from his first marriage to Tengku Puteri Zainah Tengku Eskandar, and he has five children.
