Installation of Sarawak sixth Chief Minister
Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg, 66, took over from Tan Sri Adenan Satem who passed away on Wednesday.
The Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) deputy president, took his oath of office as the sixth Chief Minister of Sarawak before Yang Dipertua Negeri Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud at the Astana, the official residence of the Head of State, here at 4.10pm on Friday.
The event was witnessed by Abang Johari’s wife Datin Amar Jumaani Tuanku Bujang, members of the state cabinet, state assemblymen and senior civil servants.
Abang Jo was one of the three deputy chief ministers under Adenan’s administration. The two others are Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah and Tan Sri Dr James Masing.
He has been in politics for more than 30 years and is a nine-term state assemblyman for the Satok constituency.
His father, the late Tun Abang Haji Openg, was the first Yang Dipertua Negeri (Governor) of Sarawak, taking office upon the independence of Sarawak from Britain and the formation of Malaysia in 1963.
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