KOTA KINABALU, Sept 28 -- Sabah Perikatan Nasional (PN) chairman Datuk Hajiji Noor was today called to meet Sabah Yang Dipertua Negeri Tun Juhar Mahiruddin.

Hajiji who dressed in a blazer, songkok and white shirt arrived at Istana Negeri at 3.55 pm in a dark vehicle.

"I was called,” he told reporters why he is going into the istana here today.

Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) today unanimously named Hajiji, who is Sulaman assemblyman as the new Sabah Chief Minister.

GRS secured clear majority to take the reins of the state government from Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan) in the 16th Sabah state election when it obtained 38 out of 73 seats in the assembly.

-- BERNAMA