Adamawa State Governor, Senator Bindow Jubrilla on Tuesday dismissed speculations that he would leave the All Progressives Congress (APC) following the resignation of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from the party last week.

Jubrilla who denied the insinuation making the rounds in various quarters while fielding questions from State House correspondents shortly after his closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa said no APC party member from the North -East would leave the party in solidarity with Atiku.

He disclosed that he was in the Villa to intimate President Buhari with the security situation in the state following the recent Boko Haram suicide attack which killed dozens of people in a mosque in Mubi.

While describing himself as a founding father of the APC, Jubrilla said it was impossible for him to dump the party he co-founded and noted that Atiku was mature enough to chart the way forward for his life.

His words: “I came to brief Mr. President on the security situation in Adamawa State in view of what happened a couple of weeks ago. So basically, that is why I am here.

“The former VP is more than mature enough to decide whatever he wants to decide for himself. As far as I am concerned, I am one of the founding fathers of the APC. When I was in the Senate with the current Senate President, we were the ones that worked very hard to ensure some members of the National Assembly agreed to move to APC and we did.

“So I don’t see any reason why the house I helped to build, I will leave it. I am in APC for the rest of my life. While expressing utmost respect for Atiku, Jubrilla added that he was the first governor to endorse President Buhari for a second term and as such, he and the people of the North – East would remain loyal to the President whom he said was committed to the fight against insurgency in the region.