Buhari hasn’t asked me to resign ― Akpanudoedehe

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Senator Akpanudoedehe

National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, has denied media reports that he has resigned from his position.

Senator Akpanudoedehe made the clarification on Tuesday in Abuja on the heels of speculation that he has thrown in the towel.

Speaking with newsmen, the APC national secretary who spoke in defence of Yobe State Governor stewardship as Chairman of APC CECPC, Mai Mala Buni, said there was no official communication from President Muhammadu Buhari asking him to vacate his office.

He said: “I have read in social media that I have resigned as Secretary of the APC. I want to state that it is not true that I resigned. If I have resigned, you would have seen my letter of resignation written by me. Someone cannot just say somebody is dead when he is alive.

“I am not bigger than the party, or bigger than the president who is a leader of the country. I waiting for my national chairman to come back.

“We have done so much for this party. When we inherited this party, if you can recall, it was in its lowest ebb. We built the party and recover a lot of grounds. We were able to register 41 million members. And we bought this secretariat of the party.

“We have been able to recover what we lost. We lost and brought in a lot of governors. All the States we lost, we brought in two weeks.

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“We have been able to go round this country and the Constitution that was a difficult thing to do, we have done it in less than one year.

“We have done reconciliation, ward, local governments and state congresses. And we are about to do the national convention. This is not the first time you are seeing power play.

“I am waiting for the Chairman. If we have a directive from the president that we should resign, we are not bigger than the president, we will do so if we hear from him. Somebody cannot say go and announce he is resigning. Like MKO Abiola used to say, you don’t shave someone’s head in his absence. So, we have done so much.

“And you will agree with me that when we came in, this place was like a dead zone. The secretariat was moved to a private home. But we were committed to what we were doing.

“I am stating here that that breaking news is not from me. I don’t know who announced it.

“Our relationship is very cordial. I don’t have any load. I come I here and I leave. I have never changed my furniture. The photograph is official. I have not packed anything. I have not received any letter.

“Someone cannot say the president said. I have not received any letter from anywhere. As I said, nobody is bigger than the party. The issue is that, have resigned, the answer is no. I am the national secretary of the party.”