Abd Al-Nasser resign
General Mohamed Abd Al-Ghany Al-Gamasy said in his memoirs ( During these incidents, president Abd Al-Nasser, announced his resignation assigning his responsibilities to Zakaria Mohi Al-Deen. Abd Al-Nasser believed that he was historically responsible of that defeat.
On 9th and 10th of June demonstrations moved around streets of Cairo refusing the resignation decision. The Nation Council and Cabinet refused the same decision. On 10th, president Abd Al-Nasser addressed the nation saying, "I'll be in my place just to remove the remains of the defeat. Then, we have to make a public referendum; because I’m convinced by my decision, and the opinion of our people is considered an order to me that must be done."
While we were listening to the news in Ismailia from Cairo Broadcasting. Our forces were not constant and unable to defend the Canal area. Our only concern was to collect our forces again and calculating the size of loss to take necessary situations in the western bank and providing them weapons whatever they were few.
The Israeli forces were dominating the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, while tears in our eyes and bitter fill our hearts, our armed forces were a victim and we politically and military had been defeated. It was a hard time and beyond description, no one could feel it except those who underwent these events in Sinai and the Canal area.)
Source: October War 1973, second edition 1998. General Mohamed Abd Al-Ghany Al-Gamasy chief of operations of Egyptian Army during the war. 