Jahid Jahim

Jahid Jahim
زهد نورالدين زعيم
Deputy President of the
United Sabah Party
(Muslim bumiputera)
Assumed office
4 January 2021
Serving with Radin Malleh (non-Muslim bumiputera & 2021–2022) &
Joachim Gunsalam (non-Muslim bumiputera & since 2022) &
Yee Moh Chai (Chinese)
PresidentMaximus Ongkili
Preceded byJamilah Sulaiman
Ministerial roles (Sabah)
2004–2013Assistant Minister of Youth and Sports
2018Minister of Housing and Local Government
2020–Minister of Rural Development
Faction represented in Sabah State Legislative Assembly
2004–2013Barisan Nasional
2018–2022United Sabah Party
2022–Gabungan Rakyat Sabah
Personal details
Born (1958-05-29) 29 May 1958 (age 66)
Kg. Rangalau Kiulu, Tamparuli, Tuaran, Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia)
Political partyUnited Sabah Party (PBS)
Other political
affiliations
Barisan Nasional (BN)
(2002–2018, aligned:since 2020)
United Alliance of Sabah (GBS)
(2018–2020)
Perikatan Nasional (PN)
(aligned:since 2020)
Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS)
(since 2020)
Alma materNational University of Malaysia
OccupationPolitician

Jahid Jahim (born 29 May 1958) is a Malaysian politician who has served as State Minister of Rural Development of Sabah in the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) state administration under Chief Minister Hajiji Noor since September 2020 and Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Tamparuli since May 2018 and from March 2004 to May 2013. He also served as State Minister of Housing and Local Government of Sabah from 2004 to 2013 and State Assistant Minister of Youth and Sports of Sabah in 2018. He is a member of the United Sabah Party (PBS), a component party of the ruling GRS coalition. He has served as the Deputy President of PBS for the Muslim Bumiputera quota since January 2021 and served as the Secretary-General of PBS. [1] He had previously contested in the elections as a direct candidate of another ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition before PBS decided to leave BN on 12 May 2018.

  1. ^ ">Datuk Jahid Jahim". tamparulisabah.wordpress.com. 3 November 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2020.