IPOH - Former Perak Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu, has announced his resignation as Football Association of Perak (PAFA) president, effective today.
He said he made the decision to ensure that PAFA's financial crisis could be resolved as soon as possible in view of him no longer the MB since it was difficult for him to attract sponsorships, whether from government-linked companies (GLCs) or the private sector.
"It is important for the players and officials to get contributions from the state government and GLCs for theirs and their families’ livelihoods.
"Salaries of players and officials have been in arrears since mid-November 2020 until now, which involves a cost of almost RM2 million a month," he told a press conference here.
Elaborating further, Ahmad Faizal said that according to his initial plans, he intended to give up the post during PAFA's congress, scheduled to be held at the latest by next month.
"But I took the decision to resign as soon as possible over fears that the players will migrate to other teams if salary payments are not made soon," he said, adding that the process of privatising the Perak team to be the Perak Football Club (FC), coming up with the new logo, jerseys and players' contracts had already been settled.
Ahmad Faizal was elected PAFA president on December 6, 2018. ─ Bernama, 21 January, 2021
