Abdul Latiff Ahmad [SEP] occupation
Abdul Latiff Ahmad
Datuk Dr. Haji Abdul Latiff bin Ahmad (Jawi: عبداللطيفف بن احمد ; born 9 July 1958) is a Malaysian politician and is the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) of Malaysia for the Mersing constituency in the state of Johor for fifth term since 1999. He was a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO); a component party of Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He resigned from UMNO to be an Independent politician in 2018. Presently he is a member of the Malaysian United
Pudu Girls' English School and later Victoria Institution, where he was contemporaries of, among others, Yahya Abdul Razak, Lee Siew Choh, Yaacob Latiff and Mahmood Ambak, the father-in-law of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the fifth Prime Minister of Malaysia. He passed the London Matriculation in 1935 and trained as a chartered accountant. He intended to read law, but his studies were put on hold by the Japanese occupation of Malaya.
Politics.
Omar helped found and joined the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA