Umno has named party veteran and Gua Musang division chief Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah as election director for the upcoming Nenggiri by-election.

The New Straits Times reported Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi as saying that the party will be fielding a candidate to contest the Kelantan state seat, while state Umno chief Ahmad Jazlan Yaakub has also been named as the by-election operations director.