GE15: Five-way battle in Gombak, Azwan Ali pulls out of race

KUALA LUMPUR: Controversial celebrity Azwan Ali announced he will not be contesting the Gombak parliamentary seat in the 15th General Election (GE15).

Azwan - better known as Diva AA - said he had a change of heart after his mother came to him in a dream, advising him to not contest.

"Mak Tom came to my dream. She told me not to contest," Azwan told reporters at the Sungai Pusu nomination centre at SMK Sungai Pusu in Gombak, Saturday.

Azwan earlier announced that he will be contesting as an independent for the Gombak seat against his brother and Perikatan National candidate Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali.

In GE14, Azmin defeated Azwan when contesting the Bukit Antarabangsa state seat.

Azwan added the had received a call from Azmin's wife, Datin Seri Shamshidar Taharin on Friday evening.

"We spoke at length last night but she did not dissuade me to contest. Please do not misunderstand. We talked about other things," he said.

The Gombak seat will see a five-cornered fight between Azmin, Pakatan Harapan's (PH) Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari, Barisan Nasional's (BN) Datuk Megat Zulkarnain Omardin, Gerakan Tanah Air (GTA) candidate Datuk Dr Aziz Jamaludin Mhd and independent candidate Zulkifli Ahmad.

Azmin won the Gombak parliamentary seat on a PKR ticket in GE14, beating candidates from Umno and PAS. He received 75,113 votes with a 48,721 vote majority.

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