Anyanwu vs Ude-Okoye: PDP BoT inaugurates committee over Nat’l Secretary position

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On Wednesday, the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) established procedures to settle the dispute over the party’s national secretary.

A committee headed by Kabiru Tanimu Turaki was established by the PDP BoT to interact with the parties, research the situation, and report back to the Board for additional action.

The PDP’s National Secretary job is up for grabs between Samuel Anyanwu and Sunday Ude-Okoye.

Following Anyanwu’s departure to run for governor of Imo State, which he lost, the position became controversial.

Ude-Okoye was approved by the party to take over the role after his return.

On December 20, 2024, an Enugu appeal court confirmed a high court’s judgement to remove Anyanwu as PDP secretary and affirming Ude-Okoye as the authentic Secretary.

However, in a communique released following its 79th session, the BoT stated: “The Board of Trustees at its 79th meeting today, Wednesday, January 29, 2025, critically assessed the State of affairs of the Nation and the Party and resolved as follows:

“The BoT expresses serious concerns over the unresolved challenges facing the Party especially as related to the disagreements within the National Working Committee (NWC).

“The BoT calls on the members of the NWC, all Organs, leaders and critical stakeholders of our Party across board to rise above personal, group or sectional interests and place the stability, unity, sustenance and progress of our Party and its ideals above all other considerations.

“In the effort to resolve the current crisis over the position of the National Secretary of the Party, which is presently before the Courts, the BoT set up a committee led by Barr Kabiru Tanimu Turaki SAN to interface with the parties, study the situation and report to the Board for further action.

“The Acting National Chairman assured the BoT that the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting will hold as scheduled in scheduled in February 2025 to address all pertinent issues and reaffirm our shared commitment to the unity, discipline, and ideals that bind us together as members of the PDP.”

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