OCTOBER 11 — Five years ago, I wrote “Will Zahid do what Najib did in 2009?”

In that year on February 5 at about 10am, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Razak, in his capacity as the chairman of the Perak Barisan Nasional (BN), had an audience with His Royal Highness the Sultan of Perak Sultan Azlan Shah.

At the meeting, Najib presented the late Sultan Azlan Shah with a letter of support from the 28 members of the State Legislative Assembly (SLA) who were aligned to the BN and that of the Behrang, Changkat Jering assemblymen and Jelapang assemblywoman.

The Behrang, Changkat Jering and Jelapang assembly persons declared and informed His Royal Highness that they no longer supported the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and instead threw their support behind BN.