Date: Monday, 27 July, 2009
Dear Fellow Members of ABBF
The IFBB did not pay heed or respect the advice of the Olympic Council
of Asia and they went ahead and INSTALLED their own REGIME to rival
with the legal organization under the leadership of Mr. Osama Alshafar
of the ABBF purposely setting up a parallel group in Asia to divide and
rule and to DESTROY bodybuilding which we founded over 50 years ago.
You can now see the true colour of this man called Rafael Santonja and
his "yes sir" followers; he is doing more harm than good. He is
sabotaging the East Asian Games in Hong kong and now he is creating
mischief to disturb and
confuse the Asian society.
Please remain calm and do not be disturbed by his nonsense and the so
called IFBB ASIA....this will not work. We have strong backing from
over 30 countries and we are the LEGITIMATE FEDERATION as recognized by
Their National Olympic Committee, and OLYMPIC COUNCIL OF ASIA.
It is ridiculous that that the IFBB Asian federation accepts individual
official as representing a country and some countries which has no
official registered federations are being roped into their organization
to show numbers.
The IFBB itself does not follow their rules which states clearly that
members must show proof of the organization's acceptance by their
Ministry of Sport, or National Olympic Committee, that they are the
sole recognized national sport governing body for the sport of
bodybuilding and fitness within their country. Refer to their Article 15.2.
Since their leader Rafael Santonja and his subjects are dumb and never
respond to our letters, we should also ignore them completely.
Their cowardly and irresponsible actions should be exposed to the world at large.
We will discuss all these at the coming Congress on 13th August, 2009 in Pattaya, Thailand and send a clear message to them.
ABBF Executive Members.