Anyanwu: PDP NEC Is Illegal, I Won’t Step Down As Secretary

Embattled National Secretary of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Samuel Anyanwu has double down on his stand that he will not quit his position.

“I will not step down” as PDP National Secretary Anyanwu said on Wednesday few hours after a botched attempt by the party’s National Executive Council, NEC  to remove him as its scribe.

The magazine reported that the PDP NEC would have removed  Anyanwu on Tuesday but for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC which insisted that  he’s the legal National Secretary of the party.

The Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led INEC had on Monday informed the fact-finding Committee set up by the party, to find out the position of the commission on the controversial, that it has recongonised Anyanwu as the authentic occupier of the position. The Committee which was led by Governor Kefas of Taraba state also had as members Governors of Zamfara and Enugu states.

Speaking to journalists yesterday in Abuja, the nation’s capital Anyanwu said he was not ready to vacate his position, saying whatever decision taken at the PDP is illegal, noting that those that wants him out are the ones fueling the crisis in the party.

According to him, the trouble makers are some key leaders of the party and not the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike who he scribe as his ‘friend.”

He explained that his tenure has not lapsed since he was elected into the position in 2021, saying the trouble makers in the party are the ones ‘demarketing’ it and trying to destroy the PDP. H

Anyanwu message for his political opponents   si that there is no “vacancy” for the PDP National secreatry position.

He said, “There is no vacancy in the office of the PDP national secretary,” he said.

“I was elected in October 2021 as the national secretary of this party. According to the zoning arrangement, it was zoned to the south and micro-zoned to south-east.

“Just like every other state in the south-east, the national secretary position was zoned to Imo state. Every state in the south-east has a representative in the national working committee.

“But assuming that I am no longer the national secretary, for instance, whoever will replace me must come from Imo state.

“I will not give in to anybody trying to mess up my career. It took me time to build my reputation.

“I have been a two-time local government chairman and two-term assembly member, went to the senate, ran for governorship twice, and I am now the national secretary.

“Each time they talk about people demarketing the party, all these PDP leaders who go on national television are the ones destroying the party.

“Instead of saying things that build the party, they are saying things that will destroy and demarket it, and then accuse the minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, just because he’s my friend.”

The magazine reported that Anyanwu has rejected his party’s position that he’s no longer the National secretary, that Sunday Ude-Okoye, a former National Youth Leader of the party has been appointed in his place.