Senator Samuel Anyanwu, has insisted that he remains the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, until the court has ruled otherwise.
The senator has been embattled following a Court of Appeal order that sacked him last year. The appellate court had in the ruling affirmed, Sunday Ude-Okoye, a former Youth Leader of the party as the party’s scribe.
However, Anyanwu, showed up in office, at the Wadata House, Abuja PDP National Secretariat, asserting himself as the National Secretary of the party.
The battle for the National Secretary of the party has further tainted the leadership crisis rocking Nigeria’s top opposition party.
Anyanwu disclosed that the suggestions that he has been removed from office, is the figment of the imagination of his critics, saying he already filed an appeal at the Supreme Court.
Instructively, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba recently asserted that Ude-Okoye is the party’s national scribe based on the Court of Appeal judgment.
Anyanwu said thaat Ologunagba is aware that the Court of Appeal order has been appealed at the nation’s apex court, adding that the party’s spokesman remark is his personal opinion.
“That is his opinion and not the opinion of the party. He merely made a statement and as national publicity secretary of our party, I wouldn’t want to disparage him in the media, may be he didn’t get the facts correct. He never knew that the matter had been appealed at the Supreme Court and he is a lawyer, so he should understand the position of the law,” Anyanwu stated.
Last week, the magazine reported that a PDP staff assaulted a The SUN correspondent, Ndubuisi Orji.following the altercations over who between Anyanwu and Ude-Okoye is the authentic National Secretary of the party.
The party has since apologised.
