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Samuel Anyanwu, the beleaguered national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), asserts that he is the legitimate occupant of the position.
Anyanwu made this claim during an appearance on Dickson Iroegbu’s current affairs program, “Nigeria Right Now.”
According to ZINGTIE, the PDP is currently facing a new crisis as party head Sunday Ude-Okoye and Anyanwu are both vying for the post of national secretary.
In December, the Court of Appeal decided that Ude-Okoye ought to take Anyanwu’s place as the national secretary of the PDP.
After Anyanwu was elected as the PDP’s candidate for governor of Imo in 2023, the party’s south-east zonal executive committee chose Udeh-Okoye to succeed him.
It was reported that Anyanwu had secured multiple court orders prohibiting his removal from office.
However, in a judgment delivered on December 20, 2024, the Appeal Court judge, Ridwan Abdullahi, dismissed the verdict of the high court, which blocked Anyanwu’s dismissal, for lacking in merit”.
Following the decision, Ude-Okoye has been parading himself as the national secretary of the party.
However, Anyanwu stated that on the same day that the appellate court handed down the decision in favour of Ude-Okoye, he appealed the decision and also petitioned the Supreme Court for a stay of execution.
“As we speak today, I’m still the national secretary of PDP. The reason is that on the 20th of December, there was a court judgment from the appeal court of Enugu affirming the judgment of the state high court of Enugu.
“Before then, I had a federal high court judgment which affirmed my position. If you remember, sometime in 2023 before the election, precisely on the 10th of November 2023, there was a state high court judgment which said I should have resigned before vying for the office of the governor.
“Then I went to the federal high court here in Abuja, which confirmed my position that as long as I was elected by convention, my position is sacrosanct until the 9th of December 2025, when my position will officially end,” he said.
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