The Appeal Court sitting in Enugu has sacked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu, and declared Ude Okoye as the new national secretary.
The Appeal Court affirmed the Judgement of the High Court in Enugu, which earlier had sacked Anyawu as PDP Secretary, and upheld the nomination by South East PDP Executives, which nominated Rt. Hon.Ude Okoye as Anyawu’s replacement.
The Court in a lead Judgement delivered by Justice Ridwan Abdullahi described Anyawu’s claim to PDP secretaryship despite contesting and emerging as PDP governorship candidate as a grave violation of the PDP constitution and declared that his Appeal against the lower court judgement lacked merit.
Reacting to the development, the Opposition Lawmakers Coalition hailed the judgment as the Dawn of a new era in PDP and an end to the shameless politics of sabotage, betrayal, political materialism, and sellout that they said Anyawu represented. They said the acting PDP chairman, Umar Damagun has been in the same boat as Anyawu with the agenda to kill the opposition. They said he would be the next to be sacked.
In a statement signed by their spokesman, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, the lawmakers described the judgment as the beginning to the end of Damagun/Anyanwu’s evil politics against PDP.
He noted that they are in full support of the judgment, pledging loyalty to Ude Okoye as the substantive national secretary.
He said, “We want to salute the courage of the Appeal Court to have ended this madness by first of all upholding the judgment of Enugu State High Court that recognizes the decision of South East PDP leaders that nominated Ude Okoye as substantive national secretary to complete the remaining tenure created by the vacancy in the office by the resignation of Samuel Anyanwu as the National secretary when he went to run for governorship.
“The Appeal Court has restated the principle of the PDP constitution that anyone elected to the executive committee of the party at any level may resign his or her office by giving 30 days’ notice in writing to the executive committee, except in cases of vying for an elective office which shall be effective within the period stipulated by NEC. The law has said that you should resign. When you choose to run for the election, you have chosen to resign.
“We thank the Appeal Court; the opposition lawmakers are one hundred per cent with our new National secretary Ude Okoye. We support and accept the decision, the opposition lawmakers coalition is happy.”
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