Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim has urged Sin Chew Daily to explain the source behind an erroneous report that he had resigned from his position.

Abdul Khalid added that he did not intend to take legal action against the Chinese language daily, but said it should at least have the courtesy of explaining the fiasco.

"At least they (should) have the courtesy to explain to us where they get the news, so in future we will not waste people's time and energy on that.

"They did do an apology in their system, but I think we need a little bit more explanation than that," he told journalists after giving out Mandarin oranges at a market in Bandar Tun Razak this morning.

Sin Chew Daily had on Thursday issued a text message blast claiming that Abdul Khalid had resigned from his position, although they had later apologised for the report.

'Unscrupulous people taking advantage'

Abdul Khalid said that on the day that the rumour had been circulated, he and the entire exco and top state government leadership were having a meeting at Carey Island, Selangor.

        

"Fortunately or unfortunately, that area did not have wifi or network access because we designed it (the meeting) in such a way that we don't want to be disturbed as we were doing all our planning for 2014.

"So I think there were some unscrupulous people who wanted to (take advantage of the situation)," he said.

However, Abdul Khalid noted that he has no knowledge of who was behind the rumour.

Abdul Khalid added that PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution ( left ) had already denied allegations that the former will resign as menteri besar, and that should put matters to rest.

"In any organisation, there is only one spokesperson. If there are many spokespersons, then the situation becomes chaotic and inaccurate news like this will come out.

        

"I have been tasked to manage Selangor the best I can and that is what I will do," he said.