Newly-appointed auditor-general Madinah Mohamad does not see public scepticism linking her appointment with her husband's political background as a challenge.

"Actually all of that is behind me now because I am now concentrating fully on my task and I think I have a lot to deliver to the rakyat," she told reporters after a closed-door lecture at Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA) in Gombak today.

Madinah was responding to a question on whether she found it challenging to address sceptics who had connected her appointment as the chief of the National Audit Department with her Umno leader husband...