On 10 May 2018 after PAS took over the state administration from BN after PAS defeated BN in the 2018 Terengganu state election, Azman was appointed as Terengganu EXCO Member in charge of Agriculture, Agro-based Industry and Rural Development by Menteri Besar Ahmad Samsuri.
[1] In January 2023, Azman made a "sarcastic" remark by referring the stabilisation of pork prices as "fate of the Chinese people".
Netizens criticised Azman by describing that as a racist remark against Chinese minority as non-Muslims in the nation consume pork.
[2] In February 2023, after authorities were called to investigate the illegal and controversial "jihad march"[3] organised by PAS in earlier February 2023, Azman defended the actions of his party comrades and compatriots by tweeting a picture of a Chinese immigrant working as a coachman for Malays with the description "Once upon a time in my homeland...",[4] hinting that the Chinese people should not be treated as equal as Malays are.
Some slammed Azman for "insinuating the low status of Chinese in the past", while some believed that PAS was trying to incite hatred against ethnic minorities in the nation.