Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berhormat Datuk |
Party: | Homeland Solidarity Party (STAR) |
Otherparty: | Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) |
Relations: | Musa Aman Anifah Aman Yamani Hafez Musa |
Spouse: | Tengku Adlina Marita Tengku Zainal Adlin |
Birth Name: | Anwar bin Ayuub @ Annuar bin Ayub |
Birth Date: | 29 August 1962 |
Birth Place: | Liawan, Keningau, Crown Colony of North Borneo[1] |
President9: | Jeffrey Kitingan |
Term Start9: | 2018 |
Office9: | Vice President of the Homeland Solidarity Party , |
Predecessor8: | Rasinin Kautis (WARISAN) |
Term Start8: | 26 September 2020 |
Assembly8: | Sabah State Legislative |
Constituency Am8: | Liawan |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Political Analyst |
Native Name: | Malay: {{Script|Arab|أنوار أيوب |
Majority8: | 641 (2020) |
Datuk Anwar Ayuub @ Annuar Ayub (also known as Datuk Annuar Ayub Aman, abbreviation AAA; born 29 August 1962)[2] is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Liawan since September 2020. He is a member of the Homeland Solidarity Party (STAR) a component party of the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) and formerly Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalitions He has served as a STAR Vice President since 2016.
Annuar Ayub started his political career by joining STAR Party on 18 December 2018. He has become a key member of Sabah STAR Party because of the contributions he has given to people around Keningau, especially in his own state constituency of Liawan. In 2020, he became a Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly for the Liawan constituency (representing GRS-STAR), defeating the incumbent, Rasinin Kautis and as a result of his electoral victory, he was appointed as the Vice President of Sabah STAR Party representing the Muslim Bumiputera quota.
He is the son of Datuk Ayub Haji Aman (born 1941), a retired politician who was once a state cabinet minister during the Sabah People's United Party rule from 1976 to 1986 under the Chief Ministership of Harris Salleh. His uncle, Musa Aman is the former Chief Minister of Sabah from 2003 to 2018, while his other uncle, Anifah Aman is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia and was later appointed President of Parti Cinta Sabah which contested in the 2020 Sabah state election.[3]
His paternal first cousin, Yamani Hafez Musa was once a Member of Parliament for Sipitang in the 14th Malaysian Parliament term.[4] [5]
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||
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2020 | N41 Liawan | Annuar Ayub Aman (STAR) | 4,628 | 39.12% | Rasinin Kautis (WARISAN) | 3,987 | 33.70% | 11,831 | 641 | 67.81% | |||
Jake Nointin (IND) | 1,835 | 15.51% | |||||||||||
Daniel Kinsik (PBS) | 1,084 | 9.16% | |||||||||||
Mazlan Abdul Latiff (PCS) | 209 | 1.77% | |||||||||||
bgcolor= | Yatin Kukung (LDP) | 45 | 0.38% | ||||||||||
bgcolor= | Leong Chau Chu (USNO Baru) | 43 | 0.36% |