Tabith Awal has been elected as the president of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) with a landslide victory in the BFF election was held on Saturday at the Inter Continental Dhaka hotel, in Dhaka.
BFF got a new president after 16 years when Tabith Awal was elected after Kazi Mohammed Salahudduddin was being elected for the last successive four tenures.
Tabith became the fourth elected BFF president after Golam Mostafa, SA Sultan, and Kazi Salahuddin.
Tabith Awal, former footballer, who was two-time vice-president of BFF, secured 123 votes against five managed by the other contender at this post. Meanwhile out of 133 delegates, five of them were absent from the AGM and elections.
Chief election commissioner Mejbah Uddin Ahmed in a video message released by BFF said, "Out of 133, votes, 128 voters casted their votes. Tabith Awal bagged 123 votes out of 128 casted votes while the other contestant Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury got five votes. Tabith Awal was declared BFF president for 2024 to 2028 tenure.”
Meanwhile, the much-hyped BFF election was ended in unenthusiastic and apathetic manner when there was almost no close contest between the two president cansidates and the senior vice-president was eleced unopposed.
