Isaacs Kekemeke, the embattled Chairman of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State has vowed not to resign from his position until he receives a letter from the party’s national leaders to the effect.
Mr. Kekemeke said this on Tuesday in Akure while fielding questions from journalists over calls for his resignation and the crisis rocking the party following rumors of imposition of a candidate on the party.
He stated that he would only resign from his position if the party’s National Chairman, John Odigie Oyegun, officially writes him a letter asking him to step down from the office as the party’s State Chairman.
“I can’t resign now until the party’s National Chairman, John Oyegun, writes me to tender my resignation letter before I would do so,” he said to journalists.
“If they [national leaders] disallowed me entry into meetings of the party and tell me that I am no longer the State Chairman I would step down.”
A SaharaReporters correspondent had reported that protesting members of the opposition APC in the State have been calling for the immediate resignation of Mr. Kekemeke.
Protesters complained that Mr. Kekemeke is working against the interests of the national leaders of the party and is compromising with the embattled Governor Olusegun Mimiko to bring disunity within the State’s party.
He was also alleged of doctoring the delegates’ lists that would be used for the party’s primary election that would hold in August 27.
The embattled APC Chairman said that the protest would be investigated, adding that the crisis in the party is a drama that would soon be resolved.
He stated that some of the allegations leveled against him, especially allegation that he doctored the delegates’ list that would be used for the primary, were cheap blackmail.
Mr. Kekemeke said the leaders of the party have started seeing the members who want to hijack the party’s structure as desperate.
He, however, stressed that the effort of the aggrieved members to destabilize the party would be truncated.
According to him, the opposition party will still go ahead and conduct a transparent primary election to pick the candidate.
