Mohd Adib Mohamad Adam


Mohd Adib Mohamad Adam is a Malaysian politician and corporate member. He also is the former fifth Chief Minister of Malacca from 11 Julai 1978 to 26 April 1982. He also held before the position of Minister of Rural Development, Cooperatives and Entrepreneurship and Minister of Information. He was a member of the United Malays National Organisation, a component party in the previous Barisan Nasional government coalition before he quits to join the Malaysian United Indigenous Party of the Perikatan Nasional coalition of the new government in 2020.

Education and career

Adib is a former student of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tinggi Melaka.
He was the Assistant District Officer in Kuala Selangor before. Then he resigned to become the executive secretary at the headquarter of UMNO at Putra World Trade Centre. In 1971, he was appointed as the Information Attaché to the Malaysia Embassy in Netherlands.

Family

Adib is married to Alauyah Jaafar and the couple has four children.

Politics

After Adib won the Malacca state assembly seat of Ayer Panas in the 1978 general election, the Prime Minister then, Tun Hussein Onn had picked him to replace Datuk Setia Haji Abdul Ghani Ali as the new Chief Minister of Malacca. He was only 37 years old and he served as Chief Minister for four years from 11 July 1978 to 26 April 1982. He was then replaced by Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik in 1982 by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad who became the new Prime Minister earlier in 1981.
Adib contested the parliamentary seat of Alor Gajah, Malacca in the subsequent 1982 general election and he won to be the Member of Parliament. He was then selected to be the Minister of Information replacing Dato' Mohamed Rahmat who was appointed as ambassador to Jakarta, Indonesia. He served in that portfolio for two years before he was appointed as Minister of Rural Development, Cooperatives and Entrepreneurship.

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