By Ayodele Oni
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) seems divided on the Supreme Court judgement which reinstated Samuel Anyanwu as national secretary.
A statement earlier by the spokesman of the party, Debo Ologunagba claimed the National Working Committee, (NWC) of the party welcomed the development.
Ologunagba’s statement added that the judgement was a victory for democracy.
Ologunagba said that the party’s National Working (NWC) received the judgement of the apex court, which affirmed that the issue was that of party leadership positions.
This, according to him, included that of the national secretary, which is entirely an internal affair of the party, requiring only the party’s internal mechanism to which the court has no jurisdiction.
“Today’s judgment of the Supreme Court reaffirms the standing position of the party.
“It emphatically settles the emergence of Sunday Udeh-Okoye as the substantive National Secretary of the PDP, having been duly nominated, endorsed and ratified through the internal mechanism of the PDP statutory organs and bodies,” he said.
This, he said, was in line with provisions of the PDP Constitution (as amended in 2017).
In another statement, signed by
Ibrahim Abdullahi, Deputy National Publicity Secretary, PDP stated that “The NWC hereby distances itself from the calculated falsehood aimed at achieving a predetermined objective, and to however, deceitfully mislead the public and PDP members.
“I am directed by the Acting National Chairman of the PDP, Umar Iliya Damagun, to refute a misleading statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary, Hon Debo Ologunagba shortly after Supreme Court delivered judgement in the case of Samuel Anyanwu Vs. Emmanuel Aniagu on Friday, March 21, 2025.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the statement of Debo Olagunagba does not reflect the position of the PDP and the NWC respectively. The public should please disregard the falsehood.
“It is pertinent to inform the public that at no time did the Supreme Court recognize Hon Udeh Okoye as National Secretary, but only described him as an ‘impostor’ while the appellant, Emmanuel Aniagu as a ‘meddlesome Interloper’ respectively.
“It is worrisome that the National Publicity Secretary has, of late embarked on a frolic of his own by taking extreme and contradictory opinions against the collective resolve of the NWC with a view to undermining its authority
“Members of the public, especially the PDP family, are hereby enjoyed to disregard and discard the publication, which is merely the figment of the NPS’s imagination.
“So far, the National Working Committee of our party cannot disregard or make gist of the judgement of the highest court in the land, as it will continue uphold the decision of the court.”
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