| Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Amat Berhormat Dato' |
| Onn Hafiz Ghazi | |
| Native Name: | Malay: {{Script|Arab|عون حفيظ غازي |
| Birth Name: | Onn Hafiz bin Ghazi |
| Birth Date: | 2 March 1979 |
| Birth Place: | Simpang Renggam, Kluang, Johor, Malaysia |
| Order: | 19th |
| Office: | Menteri Besar of Johor |
| Term Start: | 15 March 2022 |
| Predecessor: | Hasni Mohammad |
| Constituency: | Machap |
| Office1: | Member of the Johor State Executive Council |
| Monarch1: | Ibrahim Iskandar |
| 1Blankname1: | Menteri Besar |
| 1Namedata1: | Hasni Mohammad |
| Term Start1: | 6 March 2020 |
| Term End1: | 15 March 2022 |
| Predecessor1: | Liow Cai Tung Sheikh Umar Bagharib Ali |
| Successor1: | Raven Kumar Krishnasamy Mohd Hairi Mad Shah |
| Constituency1: | Layang-Layang |
| Office2: | State Chairman of Barisan Nasional of Johor |
| Term Start2: | 5 February 2024 |
| 1Blankname2: | National Chairman |
| 1Namedata2: | Ahmad Zahid Hamidi |
| Predecessor2: | Mohamed Khaled Nordin |
| Office3: | State Chairman of the United Malays National Organisation of Johor |
| Term Start3: | 7 December 2023 |
| President3: | Ahmad Zahid Hamidi |
| Deputy3: | Ahmad Maslan |
| Predecessor3: | Mohamed Khaled Nordin |
| Constituency Am4: | Machap |
| Assembly4: | Johor State Legislative |
| Term Start4: | 12 March 2022 |
| Predecessor4: | Abdul Taib Abu Bakar (BN–UMNO) |
| Majority4: | 6,543 (2022) |
| Constituency Am5: | Layang-Layang |
| Assembly5: | Johor State Legislative |
| Term Start5: | 9 May 2018 |
| Term End5: | 12 March 2022 |
| Predecessor5: | Abd Mutalip Abd Rahim (BN–UMNO) |
| Successor5: | Abd Mutalip Abd Rahim (BN–UMNO) |
| Majority5: | 364 (2018) |
| Office8: | Faction represented in the Johor State Legislative Assembly |
| Subterm8: | 2018– |
| Suboffice8: | Barisan Nasional |
| Party: | United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) |
| Otherparty: | Barisan Nasional (BN) |
| Relations: | Jaafar Muhammad Onn Jaafar Mohamed Noah Omar Hussein Onn Suhailah Noah Rahah Noah Hishammuddin Hussein Yahya Awang Najib Razak Nazir Razak Nizar Najib Nazifuddin Najib |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Profession: | Accountant |
| Education: | Royal Military College |
| Alma Mater: | University of Hertfordshire (BA) |
| Spouse: | Sharmin Fazlina Mohd Shukor |
| Children: | 4 |
| Parents: | Ghazi Ishak Roquaiya Hanim Hussein |
Dato' Onn Hafiz bin Ghazi (ms-Arab|عون حفيظ بن غازي|label=[[Jawi alphabet|Jawi]]; born 2 March 1979) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 19th Menteri Besar of Johor and Member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Machap since March 2022.[1] He previously served as MLA for Layang-Layang from May 2018 to March 2022. From March 2020 to his promotion to Menteri Besarship in March 2022, he served as Member of the Johor State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Barisan Nasional (BN) state administration under former Menteri Besar Hasni Mohammad. [2] He is a member and the Division Chief of Simpang Renggam of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the BN coalition. He has also served as the State Chairman of BN and UMNO of Johor since February 2024 and December 2023 respectively.
Onn Hafiz was born in Simpang Renggam, Kluang, Johor to Dato' Ghazi Ishak (1943–2021) and Datin Roquaiya Hanim Hussein (1949–2006), Hussein Onn's eldest child. He had comes from an impressive political pedigree. He is the great-great-grandson of the first Menteri Besar of Johor Jaafar Muhammad, great-grandson of seventh and former Menteri Besar of Johor, first and former President of UMNO Onn Jaafar, grandson of third and former Prime Minister of Malaysia Hussein Onn, and nephew of former Minister of Defence Hishammuddin Hussein.
Onn Hafiz went to Royal Military College. He received Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Accounting from University of Hertfordshire.
Onn Hafiz was an EXCO of the UMNO Youth in 2013-2018 under the leadership of Khairy Jamaluddin. In the 2018 election, he was chosen as the candidate for the Layang-Layang[3] seat and won it with a small majority of only 364 against candidates from PKR and PAS. In the 2022 election, Onn Hafiz switched constituencies to Machap and won it with a majority of 6,543 against 3 candidates including a candidate from PEJUANG, Shahruddin Md Salleh.[4]
On 15 March 2022, Onn Hafiz was officially sworn in as the new and 19th Menteri Besar of Johor, the 4th officeholder in just a single term of Parliament of Malaysia. Initially after the 2022 Johor state election, BN Chairman and UMNO President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi revealed that he would submit the name of his predecessor and caretaker Menteri Besar Hasni Mohammad to the Sultan of Johor for Hasni to be reappointed to the position after BN gained landslide victory in the election. BN previously also picked Hasni as its Menteri Besar candidate before BN returned to power. However a day before his appointment, Hasni suddenly announced his withdrawal from the running for the position and that he would pave way and endorse a younger candidate to lead the state government citing long term development for Johor and Onn Hafiz was instead appointed the next day.
See main article: 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal. In April 2019, Onn Hafiz was a witness in former prime minister Najib Razak’s corruption trial, which involved millions of ringgit linked to state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). He testified to the Kuala Lumpur High Court that his company Vital Spire received a cheque for RM240,000 from Najib to launch the Malaysian Digest portal.[5]
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | N27 Layang-Layang | Onn Hafiz Ghazi (UMNO) | 7,449 | 46.93% | Murugan Muthu Samy (PKR) | 7,085 | 44.63% | 16,257 | 364 | 81.90% | |||
| Mohd Jubri Selamat (PAS) | 1,339 | 8.44% | |||||||||||
| 2022 | N26 Machap | Onn Hafiz Ghazi (UMNO) | 11,029 | 56.64% | Azlisham Azhar (PAS) | 4,486 | 23.04% | 19,473 | 6,543 | 57.67% | |||
| bgcolor=black | Sangaran Rawisandran (MUDA) | 3,493 | 17.94% | ||||||||||
| Shahruddin Md Salleh (PEJUANG) | 465 | 2.39% | |||||||||||