I am nominated but I do not want to run

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I have been consistently nominated every year for audit committee of our employees cooperative. And for 10 years, I also have been the top in the General Assembly elections. This year, there were lots of issues experienced in our cooperative, and I see it because majority of our Board of Directors are irresponsible or are very lax in putting plans into actions. They have plenty of plans and resolutions, I applaud them for that. But none of those plans were materialized. And to think they are the same group voted already for 2 years. But if you have to evaluate their performance, they really get a failed score. Most of them ran into position just because of the honorarium, and the opportunities to travel. They even approved non-educational travel to Hong Kong, and they chose themselves to be the participants. It was actually only a packaged trip offered by an affiliate cooperative. Good that the members have stopped them. And the Chairman has no strong stand in his decisions. Yes he approves on requests, but if his approval will be questioned, he will immediately withdraw his decision. Because of that, the other officers will be forced to face the members and explain. I got tired of having these kind of people in the organization. So I decided I will resign. But since the next election is coming, I said to myself I will not run anymore. The Election Committee came over to me this morning, and asked for my confirmation if I will accept the nomination as Audit officer. I said I will not run anymore. But he insisted and showed me the result of the nomination that I am the top nominee and I never expected that I get that big number of nominations. Now I am confused... I already have decided even months ago that I will not run into any position anymore. But now that I've seen people still trust me to stay, I am confused if I will push through with my decision. Even the Election Committee didn't accept my refusal. They gave me until next week to think about it. And I have known just now that a friend of mine confirmed to run in the same committee, she said it is because she knew that I will also run. I am really confused now...