KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said's resignation has been accepted, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
He confirmed Azalina's resignation as the special adviser on law and human rights to the premier.
"I think it has been reported by every media (outlet). She tendered her resignation letter and I accepted her resignation. That's it," said Ismail Sabri when met after officiating the National Athletes Welfare Foundation (Yakeb) seventh annual general meeting (AGM) at a hotel in Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday (Sept 3).
On Aug 31, the Prime Minister's Office said Azalina had submitted a letter dated Aug 29 to resign from her position as the special adviser and the Prime Minister had accepted her resignation with a month's notice.
It added that throughout the one-month notice period, Azalina would no longer be serving at the office.
This comes after media reports that the Pengerang MP had resigned from her post as a special advisor to the Prime Minister.
However, in a Facebook post, she maintained that she had not stepped down from her position which she was appointed to in October 2021.
Azalina, who is also an Umno supreme council member, had recently questioned why the current Attorney General was not government-friendly.
She had claimed that in other parts of the world, a prime minister would usually appoint "his own person" to be the Attorney General.
Azalina, during Umno's special briefing on Aug 27, had also questioned why the Federal Court rejected Datuk Seri Najib Razak's bid to postpone proceedings after the former prime minister changed his team of lawyers.
The Federal Court had subsequently upheld Najib's conviction, as well as his 12-year jail sentence and RM210mil for misappropriating RM42mil of SRC International funds.
