The National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Malam Bolaji Abdullahi has dismissed speculations that he has resigned his membership of the party saying he wont quit the party through the back door.
Abdullahi, a known protégé of the embattled Senate President, Bukola Saraki who quit the ruling party for the main opposition, PDP on Tuesday told newsmen at the APC secretariat in Abuja that report of his resignation trending in the media was not true.
Speculation of Abdullahi’s defection was rife on Tuesday following his absence at the regular Monday meeting of the APC National Working Committee (NWC).
In his reaction to Saraki’s exit from the party, Abdullahi, however, said he was not considering leaving the party, stressing that “I came through the front door and will not go through the back door.” Defending his absence at the NWC meeting, the APC spokesman said he actually notified the party’s national leadership of his absence from the meeting.
He said “it is not true that I have resigned and let me emphasis that there is no iota of truth in that report. I can understand where the speculation is coming from, perhaps because I was absent during the NWC meeting on Monday.
“However, the speculators didn’t know that I told my colleagues that I was away in Kwara State. “I want to put it on record that I came through the front door and if I want to leave, I will leave through the front door.”
