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According to a pressure group within the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the fight against Senator Samuel Anyanwu, the party’s national secretary, might render the party incompetent before the general election in 2027.

PDP Frontliners claimed that resources and efforts were being wasted on unnecessary internal strife rather than 2027 preparations, claiming that pro-coalition forces were planning to exacerbate the situation before leaving the party.

By deliberately misleading the people about the Supreme Court’s ruling that effectively reinstalled Senator Samuel Anyanwu as PDP National Secretary, the PDP Frontliners, the coalition-planning elements, are currently tainting the party.

In a statement provided to ZINGTIE on Monday, PDP Frontliners President Alhaji Hussein Mohammed, Secretary Moses Abidemi, and Publicity Secretary Dan Okafor emphasized that Friday’s ruling by the Supreme Court was a blatant rejection of the rulings of the lower courts.

They said that the ruling was false information intended to further confuse matters and was being used as a pretext to support Hon. Sunday Udeh-Okoye’s claim to Senator Anyanwu’s seat.

“What Supreme Court said last Friday was that the two lower court judgements are invalidated; those two judgements were the basis for justifying a meeting of 25 South East PDP stakeholders who propped up Udeh-Okoye in effort to try replace Senator Anyanwu who was elected at a national convention of the PDP almost four years ago.

“The entrenched forces’ determination to continue fighting Senator Anyanwu is well reflected in ongoing efforts to mislead the public by saying that the core decision of the Supreme Court last Friday was merely that political parties should determ8ne their leadership.

“Besides, Senator Anyanwu was not the only member of PDP National Working Committee who temporarily sought leave to go and contest in their states and seamlessly returned to their position at PDP National secretariat: it has happened before and it is not against our constitution but the proxy war against Anyanwu has blinded them,” the group asserted.

Instead of escalating the conflict, the PDP side argued that members who were determined to leave the party should do so amicably.

They claim that since 1999, Senator Samuel Anyanwu has never defected from the PDP to join another political party.

In Appeal No: SC/CV/18/2025: Senator Smauel Anyanwu v. Aniagu Emmanuel, they asserted that the Supreme Court had essentially overturned the Court of Appeal’s majority ruling and upheld Hon. Justice Ekanem, JCA’s dissenting opinion.

Since leadership is an internal matter of the PDP, the Supreme Court ruled that the Enugu State High Court and the Court of Appeal lacked jurisdiction to consider the case filed by Aniagu Emmanuel at the Enugu State High Court. The matter, filed by Emmanuel, concerned leadership positions within the PDP, specifically the position of National Secretary.

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