I stay genuine PDP nationwide secretary – Anyanwu

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Samuel Anyanwu, has stated he’s the genuine Nationwide Secretary of the social gathering.

The main opposition social gathering is embroiled in a contemporary disaster as each Anyanwu and one other social gathering chieftain, Sunday Ude-Okoye, are claiming the place of nationwide secretary.

PidomNigeria Onlne stories that In December 2024, the Court docket of Appeal dominated that Ude-Okoye ought to exchange Anyanwu because the PDP nationwide secretary.

The South East Zonal Government Committee of the social gathering nominated Udeh-Okoye to switch Anyanwu after he turned the PDP gubernatorial candidate in Imo within the 2023 election.

Anyanwu had obtained a number of courtroom injunctions stopping his removing from workplace.

Nonetheless, in a judgment delivered on December 20, 2024, the attraction courtroom decide, Ridwan Abdullahi, dismissed the excessive courtroom’s judgment, which prevented Anyanwu’s removing, for “missing in advantage”.

Following the judgment, Ude-Okoye has been parading himself because the social gathering’s nationwide secretary, and the social gathering has affirmed him as its genuine scribe.

Talking throughout an interview on YouTube on Thursday on a present affairs programme, Nigeria Proper Now, Anyanwu stated he had appealed the judgment of the Excessive Court docket.

The PDP chieftain added that he had filed for a keep of execution on the Supreme Court docket on the identical day the attraction courtroom delivered the decision in favour of Ude-Okoye.

“As we converse in the present day, I’m nonetheless the nationwide secretary of PDP,” he stated.

“The reason being that on the twentieth of December, there was a courtroom judgment from the attraction courtroom of Enugu affirming the judgment of the Enugu State Excessive Court docket.

“Earlier than then, I had a federal excessive courtroom judgment which affirmed my place. In case you bear in mind, someday in 2023, earlier than the election, exactly on the tenth of November 2023, there was a state excessive courtroom judgment which stated I ought to have resigned earlier than vying for the workplace of the governor.

“Then I went to the federal excessive courtroom right here in Abuja, which confirmed my place that so long as I used to be elected by conference, my place is sacrosanct till the ninth of December 2025, when my place will formally finish.

“By the way, the folks that (filed) the case continued the matter on the attraction courtroom. On the twentieth of December, the courtroom (delivered) a judgment by which N1 million value was awarded in opposition to them.

“Nonetheless, on the identical twentieth, we appealed the matter after which filed for a keep of execution, which is regular as a result of the attraction courtroom shouldn’t be the very best courtroom. So, what does that imply? It implies that the established order ought to stay.”

Anyanwu additionally acknowledged that the PDP shouldn’t be factionalised and is being led by its nationwide chairman, Umar Damagum.

“There isn’t any faction in PDP. The PDP is led by the appearing nationwide chairman, Umar Damagum,” he added.