ABDULLAH HAS AUDIENCE WITH KING TO RELINQUISH POST

KUALA LUMPUR, April 2 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had
an audience with the Malaysian King Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin at Istana Negara
Thursday to hand over the letter relinquishing the post of prime minister and to
seek consent to appoint Najib Razak as his successor.

"It's a matter for Tuanku (the King)," he told reporters after the meeting
which lasted about an hour.

Abdullah arrived at Istana Negara in his official car at 10am and left at
11am, waving to the tourists present and the 70-odd foreign and local
journalists who had gathered at the palace gate as early as 7.30am.
-- BERNAMA