APC Secretary speaks on reported directive to resign, gives condition to do so

Senator John Akpankudohede, National Secretary, All Progressives Congress Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee, has denied resigning from the position.
Akpankudohede said this when he spoke with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja at the party’s national secretariat.

He said he remained the national secretary of the APC CECPC.

He said: “I have read in the social media that I have resigned as secretary of the APC CECPC.

“I want to state that it is not true.

“I didn’t resign.

“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 am waiting for the chairman.

“If we have directives from the President that we should resign, we are not bigger than the President.

“We will do so, if we hear from him.”

Akpankudohede said reports indicating that he had resigned his position as secretary of the APC CECPC were fake news.

Akpankudohede also faulted reports that he had been asked to resign by President Muhammadu Buhari, saying it was untrue.

“Someone cannot say the president said. I have not receive any letter from anywhere,” he said.

He said that the CECPC under Governor Mai Mala Buni had done so much for the APC since it was inaugurated on June 25, 2020.

This, he said, included registering 41 million party members and paying for the party’s national secretariat in Wuse 11, Abuja.

He said: “We have done reconciliation of aggrieved party members, ward, local government and state congresses, and we are about to do the National Convention.

“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 house, but we were committed to what we were doing.”