{"id":145708,"date":"2025-01-10T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/no-faction-in-pdp-i-remain-national-secretary-samuel-anyanwu"},"modified":"2025-01-10T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T11:30:52","slug":"no-faction-in-pdp-i-remain-national-secretary-samuel-anyanwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-faction-in-pdp-i-remain-national-secretary-samuel-anyanwu","title":{"rendered":"No faction in PDP, I remain National Secretary \u2013 Samuel Anyanwu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The embattled National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Samuel Anyanwu says he is the authentic holder of the office.<\/p>\n<p>Anyanwu made this declaration when he appeared on \u2018Nigeria Right Now,\u2019 a current affairs programme anchored by Dickson Iroegbu.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP is embroiled in a fresh crisis as both Anyanwu and Sunday Ude-Okoye, a chieftain of the party, are laying claim to the position of the national secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal in December ruled that Ude-Okoye should replace Anyanwu as the PDP national secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the south-east zonal executive committee of the party nominated Udeh-Okoye to replace Anyanwu after he became the PDP gubernatorial candidate in Imo in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Anyanwu was said to have obtained several court injunctions preventing his removal from office.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a judgment delivered on December 20, 2024, the Appeal Court judge, Ridwan Abdullahi, dismissed the judgment of the high court, which prevented Anyanwu\u2019s removal, for lacking in merit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Following the judgment, Ude-Okoye has been parading himself as the national secretary of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking, however, Anyanwu said he appealed the judgment and also filed for a stay of execution at the supreme court on the same day the appeal court delivered the verdict in favour of Ude-Okoye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we speak today, I\u2019m still the national secretary of PDP. The reason is that on the 20th of December, there was a court judgment from the appeal court of Enugu affirming the judgment of the state high court of Enugu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore then, I had a federal high court judgment which affirmed my position. If you remember, sometime in 2023 before the election, precisely on the 10th of November 2023, there was a state high court judgment which said I should have resigned before vying for the office of the governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I went to the federal high court here in Abuja, which confirmed my position that as long as I was elected by convention, my position is sacrosanct until the 9th of December 2025, when my position will officially end,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The embattled National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Samuel Anyanwu says he is the authentic holder of the office. Anyanwu made this declaration when he appeared on \u2018Nigeria Right Now,\u2019 a current affairs programme anchored by Dickson Iroegbu. The PDP is embroiled in a fresh crisis as both Anyanwu and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":145707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,65,11886],"class_list":["post-145708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-samuel-anyanwu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No faction in PDP, I remain National Secretary \u2013 Samuel Anyanwu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The embattled National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Samuel Anyanwu says he is the authentic holder of ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-faction-in-pdp-i-remain-national-secretary-samuel-anyanwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No faction in PDP, I remain National Secretary \u2013 Samuel Anyanwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The embattled National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Samuel Anyanwu says he is the authentic holder of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-faction-in-pdp-i-remain-national-secretary-samuel-anyanwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-10T09:48:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-10T11:30:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1736494780.876547.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-faction-in-pdp-i-remain-national-secretary-samuel-anyanwu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-faction-in-pdp-i-remain-national-secretary-samuel-anyanwu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"No faction in PDP, I remain National Secretary \u2013 Samuel Anyanwu\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-10T09:48:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-10T11:30:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-faction-in-pdp-i-remain-national-secretary-samuel-anyanwu\"},\"wordCount\":356,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-faction-in-pdp-i-remain-national-secretary-samuel-anyanwu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1736494780.876547.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Samuel Anyanwu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-faction-in-pdp-i-remain-national-secretary-samuel-anyanwu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-faction-in-pdp-i-remain-national-secretary-samuel-anyanwu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-faction-in-pdp-i-remain-national-secretary-samuel-anyanwu\",\"name\":\"No faction in PDP, I remain National Secretary \u2013 Samuel Anyanwu - 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