‘GTK made the right
decision’
BY CHRISTINE MONCADA
PHILIPPINE Olympic Committee president Jose
Cojuangco Jr. yesterday said he has yet to act on the
resignation of athletics chief Go Teng Kok as his special
assistant.
Cojuangco said he has received a copy of
Go’s resignation letter but has yet to discuss the matter with
Go, his known ally since he assumed the presidency of the
local Olympic body in 2004.
"We have not discussed or talked about it.
Pag nag-usap na kami then I will decide," Cojuangco said in
his regular radio program Usapang POC over Sports Radio.
"But I think he made the right move to
resign. He made the correct decision," the former Tarlac
congressmen added.
Go tendered his irrevocable resignation as
Cojuangco’s special assistant last Jan. 3, citing
irreconcilable differences with other members of the POC
Executive Board.
Go figured in heated discussion with
Bacolod City Rep. and POC vice president Monico Puentevella
and former tennis chief Buddy Andrada, along with two other
sports officials, during a POC executive committee meeting
last Dec. 18.
The disagreement stemmed from Puentevella’s
accusation that Go masterminded a plot to oust Victor Valbuena
as president of the Table Tennis Association of the
Philippines.
The outspoken athletics chief, however,
denied Puentevella’s accusation.
"I had nothing to do with the power struggle within the
table tennis association. I don’t even know the names of the
regional directors," Go said in his letter to Cojuangco.
