Fiji election cops pull in veteran activist

Hijack an Air NZ plane, hostage in a coup and now under scanner

In a startling development Fiji’s election officials have called for an investigation of a veteran politician famous for his 1987 hijack of an Air New Zealand Boeing 747.

Making it all the stranger, New Zealand resident Amjad Ali, is now on the side of the very politician he was fleeing from then - coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka.

And the hijack was not the o…