Former Perak menteri besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin said he has sought an audience with the Johor sultan to explain his recent remarks on the ruler's RM520,000 purchase of the WWW1 number plate.

"I am waiting for the palace's response ... for an audience," he said when contacted by Malaysiakini .

nizar jamaluddin As such, he declined to comment on Sultan Ibrahim Almarhum Sultan Iskandar's statement yesterday that the monarch was angry with the Bukit Gantang MP for the remarks.

Nizar had commented on Twitter that the money spent for the number plate could have built 20 low-cost house for the poor in Johor.

Asked about what he intends to tell the Johor sultan, he replied, "We'll wait for the letter (from the place), let's just wait."

Yesterday while opening the Johor state assembly session, Sultan Ibrahim had said Nizar should not comment on things he did not know and called the former MB "ignorant and shallow minded".

The sultan had earlier also said that Nizar's comment was an insult to Johoreans and called on him to apologise to the people in the state.

Nizar had on Tuesday revealed that he was seeking an audience with the sultan to explain the situation, claiming that his tweet had been misrepresented by the mainstream media, in particular the Umno-linked daily Utusan Malaysia .