Shaiful Hazizy Zainol Abidin

Shaiful Hazizy bin Zainol Abidin (Jawi: صيفال هزيزي زاينول عابدين‎; born 28 May 1976), better known by the nickname Tok Pon, is a Malaysian politician and businessman who was appointed as the Information Chief of the Kedah's United Malay National Organization Communications and Information Chief of the Kedah's Barisan Nasional Communications since 2022.

He is also the latest Head of UMNO Merbok Division and former Political Secretary to Menteri Besar of Kedah, Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah.

[citation needed] Shaiful Hazizy started his career as a program assistant at the Policy Studies Institute in 1995.

[citation needed] In 2003, Shaiful Hazizy was appointed as a special officer to the political secretary at the Ministry of Youth and Sports (KBS) under Hishammuddin Hussein.

[citation needed] Shaiful Hazizy has been selected by Barisan Nasional as a candidate to contest in the Merbok parliament in the general election on 2022.

[7][8] This decision was announced by the Secretary-General of UMNO, Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki on July 24, 2023, on his Facebook page.