Anyanwu’s Appeal Was A Mistake, Will Be Withdrawn Soon Says Wike-backed PDP

By Suleiman Anyalewechi 

The Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike-backed Abdulraham Mohammed-led Peoples Democratic party faction has explained  that the reported appeal by Senator Samuel Anyanwu, its National Secretary, against an FCT High Court judgment was filed in error.

This is as it denied that the PDP, at a anytime,  ratified the purported suspension of Anyanwu as a member of the party .

The Source reports that the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee, NWC, of the PDP had in a petition, requested the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately withdraw recognition for Anyanwu, as the party’s National Secretary, citing his expulsion and subsequent affirmation of the disciplinary action by an FCT High Court as a major reason for its demand.

The faction, in the petition filed on its behalf by its legal team led by Abdulaziz Ibrahim, SAN, noted that the party on the strength of the reports and recommendations of the Chief Tom Ikimi-headed National Disciplinary Committee, NDC, expelled Anyanwu and others, with an FCT Court affirming the decision on January 12, 2026.

However, in a statement on Saturday, issued by its spokesperson, Hon Jungudo Haruna Mohammed, the Wike-backed factional PDP stated that the legal action instituted by Anyanwu is not in connection with his purported suspension, but originated from a case filed at a Federal High Court in Abuja.

According to the faction, the said motion on notice is challenging the competence and proceedings of the Ikimi-led NDC.

It noted that the NDC  merely recommended the suspension of Anyanwu and others, but that  the NWC of the party never met to ratify it.

The faction maintained that the reports and recommendations having not been ratified by the competent organ of the party, remains null, void, and of no effect.

‘”The recommendations had no binding effect,and no valid suspension existed at any time” the statement noted.

Furthermore, the PDP faction explained that the NDC, after being discovered to have been constituted in utter disregard of the party’s extant laws was subsequently dissolved with its reports and recommendations thrown overboard.

The Wike-backed PDP emphasized that the FCT High Court presided over by Honourable Justice Halilu did not affirm any expulsion or suspension, but rather dismissed Anyanwu’s suit on the grounds that the matter falls under the internal affairs of the party and, therefore, non-justiciable .

The party added that the said appeal by Anyanwu and others were inadvertently filed, noting that machineries have been put in place to withdraw same.

Besides, the party contended that Anyanwu and others purportedly affected by the said disciplinary action had already served out their various tenures, a development that renders the purported suspension nugatory.

The Source further reports that the Turaki-led faction is contending that all actions undertaken by Anyanwu as the National Secretary, including the nomination of the Mohammed-led Caretaker Committee on November 3, 2025, were illegal, null and void,  having been  done  after his suspension on November 1, 2025.