Former Johor MB Ajib Ahmad dies

KUALA LUMPUR: Former Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ajib Ahmad died at 3.20pm on Thursday after suffering a heart attack here. He was 64.

He leaves behind wife Datin Ropeah Hassan, 60, and four children.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak paid his last respects to Ajib at the Damansara Heights Mosque at 6pm Thursday.

Ajib was Johor Mentri Besar from 1982 to 1986.

Johor state assembly speaker Datuk Ali Hassan said Ajib would be buried at the Bukit Kiara Muslim cemetery later Thursday.

Born on September 13, 1947 in Segamat, Johor, he studied at Hill School and Hampar College, Kuala Kangsar.

He graduated with a BA Hons in Economics from Universiti Malaya in 1971.

He served as Political Secretary to former Deputy Prime Minister Tun Musa Hitam from 1975 to 1982.

In 1982, he replaced Tan Sri Othman Saad as the Johor Mentri Besar.

In the 1986 general election, Ajib won the Mersing parliamentary seat and was appointed Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.

However, he was dropped from the government in 1987.