{"id":155981,"date":"2025-03-21T09:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/breaking-supreme-court-declares-anyanwu-authentic-pdp-national-secretary"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:35:10","slug":"breaking-supreme-court-declares-anyanwu-authentic-pdp-national-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/breaking-supreme-court-declares-anyanwu-authentic-pdp-national-secretary","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Supreme Court declares Anyanwu authentic PDP National Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Supreme Court has nullified the judgements of the Court of Appeal and Federal High Court, which sacked Senator Samuel Anyanwu as National Secretary of the People\u2019s Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>A five-member panel of the apex court on Friday held that the issue of who is the National Secretary of the PDP borders on the internal affairs of a political party, which is not justiciable.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Jamilu Tukur, who delivered the lead judgment of the Supreme Court, consequently struck out the judgment of the trial court delivered in October last year and also set aside the majority judgment of the Court of Appeal, which had in December affirmed the sack of Anyanwu as PDP\u2019s National Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Tukur subsequently affirmed the minority judgment of the appellate court delivered by Justice Ekanem, which had nullified the judgment of the trial court on account of lack of jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the apex court held that the plaintiff, Aniagu Emmanuel, who initiated the suit at the trial court, lacked the necessary legal backing to do so, since he did not show how he was affected by who is the National Secretary of the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Details later.<\/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 Supreme Court has nullified the judgements of the Court of Appeal and Federal High Court, which sacked Senator Samuel Anyanwu as National Secretary of the People\u2019s Democratic Party, PDP. A five-member panel of the apex court on Friday held that the issue of who is the National Secretary of the PDP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":155980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[8232,254,65,620],"class_list":["post-155981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-anyanwu","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-supreme-court"],"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>BREAKING: Supreme Court declares Anyanwu authentic PDP National Secretary - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court has nullified the judgements of the Court of Appeal and Federal High Court, which sacked Senator Samue ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/breaking-supreme-court-declares-anyanwu-authentic-pdp-national-secretary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Supreme Court declares Anyanwu authentic PDP National Secretary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Supreme Court has nullified the judgements of the Court of Appeal and Federal High Court, which sacked Senator Samue ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/breaking-supreme-court-declares-anyanwu-authentic-pdp-national-secretary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-21T08:53:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-03T17:35:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742539149.507969.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"681\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/breaking-supreme-court-declares-anyanwu-authentic-pdp-national-secretary#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/breaking-supreme-court-declares-anyanwu-authentic-pdp-national-secretary\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"BREAKING: Supreme Court declares Anyanwu authentic PDP National Secretary\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-21T08:53:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-03T17:35:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/breaking-supreme-court-declares-anyanwu-authentic-pdp-national-secretary\"},\"wordCount\":215,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/breaking-supreme-court-declares-anyanwu-authentic-pdp-national-secretary#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742539149.507969.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Anyanwu\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Supreme Court\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/breaking-supreme-court-declares-anyanwu-authentic-pdp-national-secretary#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/breaking-supreme-court-declares-anyanwu-authentic-pdp-national-secretary\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/breaking-supreme-court-declares-anyanwu-authentic-pdp-national-secretary\",\"name\":\"BREAKING: Supreme Court declares Anyanwu authentic PDP National Secretary - 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