By our Reporter
Samuel Anyanwu, National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has insisted that he is the authentic holder of the office.
Anyanwu made this declaration when he appeared on ‘Nigeria Right Now,’ a current affairs programme anchored by Dickson Iroegbu.
Recall that the PDP is embroiled in a fresh crisis as both Anyanwu and Sunday Ude-Okoye, a chieftain of the party, are laying claim to the position of the national secretary.
The Court of Appeal in December ruled that Ude-Okoye should replace Anyanwu as the PDP national secretary.
Speaking, however, Anyanwu said he appealed the judgment and also filed for a stay of execution at the supreme court on the same day the appeal court delivered the verdict in favour of Ude-Okoye.
“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.
