Confusion As PDP Leaders Break up Over A/Courtroom Judgment Sacking Anyanwu As Party Scribe

Strikes by a faction within the management of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to sidestep a judgement of the Courtroom of Appeal, Enugu Division, have deepened the cracks within the disaster of confidence rocking the principle opposition get together.

IT WAS had earlier reported that the appellate courtroom, in December 2024, affirmed the judgment of a Federal Excessive Courtroom, which eliminated Senator Samuel Anyanwu because the Nationwide Secretary of the PDP.

Justice Ridwan Abdullahi, who learn the lead judgement, had declared Sunday Ude-Okoye because the substantive nationwide secretary of the PDP. Ude-Okoye was the PDP Deputy Nationwide Youth Chief earlier than the courtroom’s pronouncement.

Anyanwu had, in 2023, left his seat as Nationwide Secretary to contest the Imo State governorship election with out relinquishing his place.

Upon shedding the election, he got here again to reclaim the seat, however PDP stakeholders within the Southeast zone had already nominated Ude-Okoye as his alternative whereas he was away.

Justice Abdullahi of the Appeal Courtroom, Enugu, dismissed Anyanwu’s enchantment difficult his removing by the decrease courtroom on the bottom that the enchantment lacked benefit as a result of he acted in violation of the PDP structure.

Nonetheless, makes an attempt by Ude-Okoye to imagine workplace as Nationwide Secretary on the energy of the judgment of the appellate courtroom are being thwarted by Anyanwu, who belonged to a faction led by the Performing PDP Nationwide Chairman, Umar Damagum.

Twists within the disaster have break up the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) down the center, with Damagum main a faction loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. The opposite faction claims to face for the rule of legislation and the soundness of the get together.

The 2 factions now have separate official spokespersons. Whereas the incumbent Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, speaks for the pro-rule of legislation faction, his deputy, Ibrahim Abdullahi, speaks for the Damagum faction.

The Damagum faction claims that Anyanwu had gone to the Courtroom of Appeal, Abuja, the place he obtained a keep of government of the judgment of the Courtroom of Appeal, Enugu. However the faction that Ologunagba speaks for insists that the judgment was a declarative one that can’t be stayed.

And whereas the Ologunagba faction recognises Ude-Okoye because the Nationwide Secretary as ordered by the Courtroom of Appeal, the Damagum camp is backing Anyanwu to frustrate the execution of the judgment.

At a media briefing on Friday, the Deputy Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Abdullahi, mentioned the get together was served the keep of execution order on Thursday, including that Anyanwu had already filed an enchantment on the Supreme Courtroom.

In keeping with him, the mentioned keep of execution order restricted the PDP from effecting the judgment of the Courtroom of Appeal, Enugu, that upheld the removing of Anyanwu and recognised Ude-Okoye as Nationwide Secretary, “pending the listening to and dedication of the enchantment filed on the Supreme Courtroom.”

Abdullahi added that the listening to within the enchantment filed by Anyanwu on the Supreme Courtroom is mounted for January 28 and that events have been ordered to take care of the established order pending the dedication of the go well with.

Nonetheless, the get together management had prior to now complied with courtroom rulings eradicating two PDP nationwide chairmen, Prince Uche Secondus and Dr Iyorchia Ayu.

Whereas Secondus was eliminated by a excessive courtroom in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in August 2021, Ayu was sacked by a excessive courtroom in Markudi, Benue State, in March 2023. Within the two cases, Secondus and Ayu had stayed away whereas interesting the courtroom rulings that restrained them.

Sarcastically, Damagum, who was appointed Performing Nationwide Chairman to switch Ayu in compliance with the ruling of the courtroom, is now main a faction of the NWC to undermine a judgment of an appellant courtroom.

The PDP has been in disaster following disagreements between former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and incumbent Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, over the 2023 PDP presidential ticket.

And whereas Wike is backing the Damagum faction to retain Anyanwu, key stakeholders, together with the Board of Trustees (BoT) and the get together’s governors, are lined behind Ude-Okoye.

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